Firstly if this come across a little scattered please bare with my bipolar mind.
Im Travis, resonsably new here, I live in Aotearoa or more commonly New Zealand in the south island.
I was always a heavy drinker having worked in hospitality doing bar work for some 12 years I learnt how to drink like a fish at some point in 2014/5? I ended up getting clean for 1 and a bit years. Tools to help balance me.
From sometime in 2017 or so i started drinking again and slowly it got worse and worse.
To 2022 Id been talking about stopping for a while again but never actioned it, untill now clean time says one day less but today I am 10 days clean.
I was up north on my family land burying my uncle, whilst sitting around with my cousins i reached out in my head to my ancestors and asked for help.
I feel as if this has helped and they have come through i feel renewed and freash ready to finally take this journey with their help.
Today I now say I dont drink and am no longer even interested picking one up.
I know im new, i know its early days but my gut tells me now is my time to get through this. When i have everything im no longer willing to let this stand in my way to bring my empire down.
Iām Dutch, never been to NZ. So I donāt know any Maori except from some novels
But itās an interesting culture, glad people are keeping the language of Aotearoa alive !
Iām doing a bicultural teaching degree with a kaupapa MÄori focus, so likewise I am trying to learn the reo. Trying to learn some of the conjoining words atmā¦
What are your interests bro do any hunting or gymming? Three years clean here, Iām down in invercargill of all places studying at Otago uni but originally from Blenheim.
