NDNAEU 7 "Escaping Alcohol through Forgiveness, Love & Thankfulness" Gerald Packineau

What turned my life around i sat in a hole for 11 months on our house by a spirituality I had I was taught Christian ways so I had a Bible and I had my traditional ways that was taught on songs in prayer and you have no one around you know what Christian telling you no tradition does that relationship and that came with three things I learned forgiveness somewhere out there forgave me and it’s a spiritual aspect that connection somewhere out there love me that’s where I found myself I was loved because we’re all I’ve been through I could have died I could bend a doctor he died of alcohol he died and alcohol death that he died some type of related with alcohol no he’s locked up rest of his life so someone forgave me for everything I went through and I can all right and someone who loves me because you’re still here you’re alive and I’ve been in a lot of car accidents and a lot of you know fights but you know I you know what the heck what the heavy fighting for you know doing remember drunk but you know those things those combinations sitting there you know that money you don’t you know don’t talk to your family a 15-month 15 minutes out of a month you know and you know and just thinking about what your family has done for you and what the creator and the last thing I am thankful and that’s what put everything together and when I first got out of that system they sent me out kicked me down the road refers a temptation right away I live I know Denver I grew up in Denver there was a whiskey bottle on the shelf and the guy was passed out and I knew the scenario his out he passed out this his drink I could grab that walked out and took off start drinking but I didn’t because I knew that was not the lifestyle I want to live anymore I knew that the lifestyle that’s not where the Creator wanted me to be I knew I had a better lifestyle now but I had to take that step in to say no but as children we don’t know those things we don’t we think it’s okay because we see an individual doing that and having fun I thought the same thing I could do all these other things and still drinking news but it didn’t work out that way and I could have been in the data statistics where this any person is gone and you know well another Indian gone you know I mean Duncan Indian you know but I could’ve died alcohol didn’t and that’s when I started my journey and that’s was in 2010 that was my last my last drink but it took 2000 to 2010 TV get that far to say you know I’m trucking with drinking I can’t quit but that meant a process he’s learning all the time boom boom traditionally treatment center yeah you can’t do that yet nervous but I don’t think like that’s what I said I don’t think the way you do you know and Chris yeah I don’t think like that yeah go do an alter car do this treatment he’s 12 you know it’s just like they don’t make sense to me but yet the creator knew I was searching and looking and struggling and yet as I got where I was it was finding that point and you’re still learning that’s just the beginning I quit one thing that was out of my life that can destroy it I had diabetes when I went out doing came out I didn’t I don’t have diabeetus no more change of lifestyle I do yoga I learned yoga wasn’t when I was inside because I was reading a study about meditation and that helped see there was nothing about my being an Indian I play and then but not the really you know I mean I learned yoga I’ve been Dean you know for five years now I do weight training I still work I work on my diet and kneading but you know but those things have changed a lifestyle of change and when you’re young and you see someone doing that so I say mentorship is a very important and you’re watching me think that’s fun but you look at the I tell my children this you look at their lives down the you see whether I could have been the same thing but it came back around where I’m at today