Chris Wright joins us on The SHAIR Podcast today. He's a good friend of mine. We met in Costa Rica when he was at Costa Rica Recovery in rehab. Now Chris has recently celebrated one year clean and sober. The plan was six months ago that on his bucket list was at one year he was going to be on the SHAIR podcast and here we are. This is cool.
Yeah. We talked about it. You told me about some other guys that you were in contact with about that and I said, "I don't know. It sounded like a good goal." Keeping people off the streets, you know?
That's the goal, man. That's the goal. Whatever it takes, dude, seriously.
Whatever, whatever, whatever keeps you clean.
Expect a miracle. I have had an opportunity to hear a little bit of your story and it's heavy, man. I know that your parents have been pulling for you and I'm sure reconnecting with them has been a blessing. I want to hear all about that kind of stuff. Let's dive into your story. First, let's talk about what you were doing today. Take us into your normal daily routine including recovery.
All right. I try to center myself as much as I can in the morning, not very much. Once I'm off it's like a cup of coffee and go kind of person. It's important to me. Some people get down on their knees and pray or whatever. Whenever I'm conscious of it I'll just take a moment. Pretty much what I do is I ask a higher power for strength just to kind of do their will. Then I move forward with my day. Right now I'm working full time Monday through Friday so I do that. I'm an organic biodynamic farmer so I do pretty labor-intensive work and usually come home exhausted.
I have a dog who's pretty much my child. I hike, walk with him even though I'm exhausted every day. I'll eat something, put something in my body and then I usually hit a night meeting. Right now I'm trying to do three nights a week which is good for me and then I hit both weekends whenever possible. It's been kind of a transitional phase. I wasn't working full time through a large majority of my first year which was kind of a blessing. I hit well over three sixty-five meetings in my first year which I think was quite pivotal.