Hi everyone! My name is Skyler Robbins, I am 28 years old and about three years ago I started to come to the realization that I had a problem with drugs and alcohol. I was ruining my life, my finances were in the garbage and I was destroying relationships with my friends and family. I burned nearly every bridge I had left until it was blatantly obvious... I was alone. No one wanted to be around me, and for good reason. I was untrustworthy, not loyal in the slightest, and I was not someone my loved ones could depend on at all. Needless to say it was time for a change, I started to acknowledge the fact that my addiction was a problem. Unfortunately, talking about getting sober is much easier than actively taking the steps necessary to do so. I would go a couple weeks, sometimes even a month or two and would fail horribly. I'm not someone who can have just one and this is a lesson that would take me three years to understand. Time was running out, I was broke, my mattress was on the floor and my girlfriend was 6 months pregnant. It was December 16th of 2023, I had no money for gifts to give anyone and my depression was in full swing. I ended up giving in to the temptation of going out for a drink for what i can finally say a year later was the last time. I Did It! I quit the alcohol, and hard drugs I was finally sober...ish? I still used cannabis products for the entirety of the year, this was really my only outlet from work and stress of my everyday life. For me it made not thinking about the alcohol and drugs a bit easier. I started discussing with my girlfriend about how getting to even this point in sobriety was extremely hard work and shouldn't be blown off as a small victory, when it was actually a grand achievement. I wanted to show people that if I can do it, then they can do it too. She actually brought it to my attention that I was not sober, but I was in fact, "Calisober" which is apparently a growing term for people who still use Cannabis and other psychedelics. Now I do realize that this may not be for everyone and if you think that strictly no use of any substance is going to help you get your life on track I highly encourage you to stick with that because there is a better life out here for you. I promise.