 I'm a firm believer that no matter who you are, you have a powerful story that can impact someone's life for the better. So stay tuned as I talk about this and tell you about an awesome way for you to share your story. What's up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution. This is going to be an addiction recovery episode but stay tuned because no matter what you've been through I want you to just understand the message that I'm trying to share. Now I don't need to go into too many details of my story. A lot of you have been following my channel. You know that I'm a recovering drug addict. You know that I struggle with anxiety and depression. Some of you know that I grew up with an alcoholic mother. All sorts of things. Now I want to just emphasize on the fact that I wouldn't be sitting here today if I wasn't able to hear a lot of stories from people who I felt had reached lower lows than I could even imagine and now they live amazing lives today. I've always been of the belief and maybe it's a little bit of the competitive Chris in me but I've always been of the belief that if that person can do it maybe I can too. That gives me hope when I see that somebody else has been through something and they came out on the other side better or stronger or hell even alive. That inspires me. I don't care who you are. I draw something from every single story I hear. Every one of my friends or family members or strangers who share a story and I see what they've triumphed over and been through. It inspires me to do better and be better and it gives me hope that things will always get better as long as I'm willing to put in a little bit of effort. As many of you know I live in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada and just to give you a little bit of a hint as to how powerful your story can be. If any of you drug addicts or alcoholics out there are watching this by me telling you that I have been sober in Las Vegas, Nevada for over four years that might have impacted you. You might have been like damn if that guy can stay clean in Las Vegas, Nevada I can stay clean anywhere, right? I tell that to my clients all the time. I work it out of two rehab centers here in Las Vegas, Nevada and I try to explain to my clients that when they go back home they have a very powerful message. I tell them to imagine the newcomer walking into the rooms thinking that there's no way that they can get sober and just by one of these people after they discharged from treatment going to a meeting and saying hey I got clean in Las Vegas that will make some people's heads explode so just something that simple can have a very big impact on people. But this video isn't about me I'm about to hand this video over to my man Morris from Sober Movement because they have an incredible incredible Instagram account where people in recovery share their stories all the time and it's super super inspiring just knowing everything that Sober Movement is about how they're helping people and in this video from Morris he's going to talk a little bit about their Instagram how you can get involved and a bunch of other ways that you can stay connected with them. What's going on everybody Morris from Sober Movement? First and foremost thank you so much Chris for having us on your show we really appreciate the time and dedication and the collaboration we need as many people as we could possibly get to spread this message of sobriety and recovery and living a sober lifestyle. So the question really is what is going on with Sober Movement's Instagram and how are we positioning it to go forward in spreading the message. So Sober Movement is a non-profit and it's dedicated towards spreading sobriety as a lifestyle and one of the key ways that we promote our message is through our Instagram. We have tons of folks come in and direct message us some of their before and after photos the changes that they've gone through personal experiences and challenges and we've recently redone our website to allow further stories and submissions to come in through there. So if you fancy yourself as a writer we could definitely use the content and hearing your guys' struggles and experiences. We take this stuff we briefly edit it if it needs any editing and then we redistribute it to our membership base to show that there are all forms of recovery out there there are people at various stages during their sobriety and to show that really there is a fight going on to promote a better lifestyle and better society as a whole. So one of the biggest problems that we have right now in society is that it's become socially acceptable it's become the norm to go out there and get high get drunk and it's just to us that's just not what the world is about it's not how we came into this world we came into this world completely sober and we didn't need any type of substance or anything like that to bring us down really a lot of people call it getting high but we like to call it getting low it's a poison it's a toxin it's something that really is not meant to go inside of your body I mean dopamine's a really really tricky thing as some of you may know when you're getting loaded you're getting high and you think that hey you know what I'm having such a blast when that crash comes it's absolutely the worst thing in the world right now our Instagram is being tailored towards these stories we have some future programs that are coming up where we're trying to raise money in the form of donations and merch purchases so we are calling it our delivering happiness program and this is to help everything from taking care of people's bills when they're running short providing them the basics of relief right now we're trying to help single moms single dads and of course fellow addicts in recovery so we we appreciate any donations that you guys send over to us it's all going to be going towards this campaign we're looking at raising about ten thousand dollars and we're doing pretty good as far as our goals go but any dollar any you know penny amount helps so if you can please visit our website and contribute to this delivering happiness campaign that we have going on it's just simply clicking on the donate and you can donate any amount that you wish so some of the stories that we've been hearing and some of the contributions from the folks I mean they range everything from being nine months sober three months sober 30 days sober three days sober we love hearing every single one of these experiences and we like centralizing it and then crafting and showing people that you're not alone this is something that people are striving for and they're struggling for hopefully we can prevent a lot of people that are looking to experiment with drugs not to experiment with drugs recently we've been invited to speak with well over 300 high school students and we hope to encourage them to protect themselves protect the sanctity of their brain protect the sanctity of their heart and really stand for justice and stand for what's right in protecting these beautiful organs and protecting imagination and daydreaming and all these things that get hindered through the drug process so once again really appreciate the collaborative effort thank you so much for having us on your show we love what you do keep up the amazing work and I hope that your fans get a chance to check us out at sobermovement.com as well as at sober movement for Instagram we also have an amazing Facebook group that's continuing to grow it's it's an amazing fellowship and a system of support for folks so if you need to rant or you need to get something off your chest for that day by all means please join us on our group we have lots of supportive members on there in an ever-growing community and we'd love to have you be a part of it sober movement your place for a sobriety fix once again chris thank you so much for allowing me to come on your show and we look forward to working with you in the future morris thank you so much for taking the time to send me this video for the rewired soul i love everything that sober movement is about and everybody please check out the links below in the description i'm gonna link all their different social media accounts even their instagram one so you can get involved with that and also sober movement just started a brand new youtube channel and please show them some love i'm gonna link down to that below and also at the end card at the end of this video you can click or tap on that to subscribe to their channel sober movement is doing some amazing things and i look forward to doing some more work with morris and the guys over there at sober movement and everybody please stay involved think about what you can do how you can go out and inspire people today think about the stories that you have whether you're in addiction recovery or just somebody who's been through struggles think about who that can help and go inspire somebody today all right but if you like this video give it a thumbs up if you're new here click right below you can hit that subscribe button i'm always making videos about mental health and also boom right there click on that button right there for sober movement and make sure you subscribe to their channel as well thanks for watching i'll see you next time