Sometimes Men Struggle

It has a meaning, and you are not alone.

May 29, 2017 by Craig Lewis Leave a Comment

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There are days when I feel so bad that I become unable to see things for how they really are. Often my thoughts are twisting and turning throughout a maze of total and brutal negativity. I find myself gasping for air and grasping for a hand to hold onto, yet sometimes it seems that I am very alone.

I ask myself–—is this struggle for wellness and recovery worthy of all my efforts?

Why am I dedicating all my hard work and time and effort toward my recovery?

What is this recovery that I am fighting so hard for?

It is important for us to think of the big picture.

When we work hard to improve our quality of life and strengthen our coping skills, we will experience beneficial results.

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When we struggle, experience difficulties and question our recovery, we can and will take back our lives and celebrate our progress and accept that sometimes, we will struggle.

Our struggle has meaning and our recovery is here to stay.

This post is an excerpt from Better Days – A Mental Health Recovery Workbook.

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About Craig Lewis

Craig Lewis is grateful for every experience he has had that has resulted in this very moment. He is transcending the challenges of his past and sharing his experiences, knowledge, and lessons learned with all those who will listen. This is an ongoing journey and Craig, like all of us, is a work in progress. The choice to live a life of gratitude, peace, love, kindness, spirituality, accountability, forgiveness and acceptance facilitates Craig's liberation.

Craig is the author of the ‘Better Days: A Mental Health Recovery Workbook’ - A curriculum used around the globe for the benefit of those seeking truth, peace and healing. Currently available in English, German and French, and published soon in Dutch, Finnish, Tagalog and Spanish. Craig also edited the anthology ‘You’re Crazy - Volume One’ which features 27 first-hand accounts of people from the punk rock community, internationally, sharing of their experiences coping with and transcending trauma, addiction and mental health struggles.

Even as Craig is between websites, and homes, He travels the world sharing of his experience, training providers of all sorts and also hanging out with people who have much less than himself, sharing from the heart; for the purpose of collective human healing, revolution and liberation.

Please contact Craig via email with all questions about his work and books and for any other reason.

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