Seasons In Malibu provides life-changing treatment for those struggling with drug addiction and alcoholism. Our world class drug treatment center is located in beautiful Malibu, CA.
This is an interview with Seasons In Malibu Director of Admissions, John Lloyd.
Below is a transcript of this video:
The consequences from my drinking really didn’t start showing up until late into my 30s. I can remember telling my family that I wasn’t gonna drink any more. But whether it was 10 minutes or 10 days later, I would be right back doing it ’cause I didn’t know how to stop. Today, I have relationships in my life. My family trusts me. I know that I have fewer days in front of me than I do behind me but I know the best days are the ones that are in front of me.
Patrick Mitchell, Director of Client Services
Drinking for me started like it started with anyone else, you know. I was uh, hanging out with the kids at school, going out, a little bit of marijuana after class, you know, the basics. You know it really was a celebration back then, it was new and it was exciting and there was no real consequences. Life really started to surround drinking and using for me. It wasn’t as if I didn’t know drinking was a problem. Everyone in my life was telling me drinking was a problem – my parents, my wife – they were all asking me to slow down and stop. See, drinking for me became such a part of my life; it took over my perception of where I was. I was would argue, you know, I had a hard day at work or, or I just wanted to have one and I don’t know what happened. For me it got to a point where I really wanted to quit, you know. I wanted to quit me for me, not for them, but for me. I really wasn’t happy with the man I was. I got a DUI and they said I had to stop. They told me that was it: it had to end. And I knew it had to end.
Then came the time I had surgery and they gave me pain medication. You know, I never thought that a pain pill would have the same affect on my life that alcohol did. Everything on the outside was the same, but on the inside I was broken. I didn’t like the man I had become, I didn’t like the father who I was, I didn’t like the employee I was. I really, truly love my kids and my wife, and they mean more than anything to me, but alcohol took that away. I would leave my house to drink and be away from them for days. I would take the drugs and not be present during the times that they needed me most.
How do we say thank you to the process that gave you your life back – not even your life back; the life you always wish you could live? My life today –I get to be the man I always intended to be, the father I wanted to be, the husband I wanted to be, the employee. You know, I have people who trust me. I do what I say I’m gonna do, and I go where I say I’m gonna go. The life I have today is full, and it is present, it’s real, it’s everything I could imagine real life should be and I never thought it was possible. I’m grateful for being a man my kids can respect. A man that my wife can trust. This process has given me back my life, given me a life. Given them a father. Husband. I’m grateful for the life I have today. I could’ve missed it.
Seasons in Malibu
32223 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA. 90265
424-835-6094
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