YOUNGSTER –
Dec. 14, 2022 – He explained: “What I have been taught and shown is that it is impossible for a person like me to not drink and use drugs, unless I have sufficient ongoing support from people that understand what it’s like to feel that drugs or alcohol, or you know, certain behaviors, are necessary in order to feel okay.”
Russell said the overall purpose of recovery is to wake up from a “world of attachment”, and it’s still an “ongoing process”.
He added: “Because I still, every day at 20 years without crack and heroin, without alcohol, still feel strongly, a strong requirement – a strong requirement – to seek approval or connection or validation or pleasure or distraction from the outside world.”
And he told any of his followers dealing with similar issues that “it is possible to change” and work towards a better life.
He said: “There is a way back to dignity, there is a way back to behaving responsibly and caringly – those things are all possible.”
