@ibcreativestudio: INNER ARC SERIES EVERYBODY ELSE’S SUNSHINE I’m watching The One About Matthew Perry on Netflix I’m still watching, still taking it in, and perhaps I’ll reflect more as I go But this is what has reached me so far That drive The continuous pushing and pushing Creating, reaching, trying again Something in that reminds me of myself And it makes me wonder What are we pushing for? What are we hoping we’ll feel when we finally get there? Is it the soul searching for the soul? I can’t answer that for Matthew But I recognise the question in me What also keeps coming through is his wanting to help other people When you’ve experienced the misery of addiction, recognising it in somebody else can reach somewhere very deep You know something about that place The desperation The promises you make to yourself The shame of finding yourself there again And you don’t want another person to have to feel it But I recognise myself in something else too Being able to do so much for other people Find the words See their worth Help them take the next step Believe they deserve another chance Then turning towards yourself And stumbling Knowing how to offer someone else kindness doesn’t mean you know how to receive your own Sometimes I can see so clearly what another person deserves And struggle to believe that the same care belongs to me Watching Matthew, that recognition hurts Because the wish to help can be so sincere And your own struggle can still be there when you get home I see someone who wanted to bring people with him Into his work Into his life Towards the possibility of getting well I recognise that wanting to make something useful out of the pain To give it a voice To help someone feel understood a little sooner It doesn’t undo what happened It doesn’t make the suffering necessary But perhaps it means someone else doesn’t have to sit quite so alone inside theirs That matters to me It’s part of the purpose behind Inner Arc And perhaps part of my recovery is learning to include myself in the care I want other people to have Even when I stumble Especially then Right now, watching this, the thought I keep coming back to is this This was a man who didn’t just want to be Mr Sunshine He wanted to be everybody else’s sunshine too One Day at a Time Prevention Before Crisis Progress Not Perfection #InnerArcSeries #MatthewPerry #AddictionRecovery #RecoveryJourney #PurposeDrivenBusiness

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