31/12/2025
I’m still choosing!
On 31 December 2017, I chose a different way of living.
That was my Day 1.
Today — 31 December 2025 — I stand on 2 922 days of sobriety.
I didn’t know then what that choice would cost.
Or what it would give.
Some decisions are tough.
Choosing sobriety meant losing people I once walked closely with —
not through conflict,
but because our paths no longer spoke the same language.
That loss mattered.
I felt it.
And I kept choosing anyway.
Day after day.
On the easy days.
And especially on the hard ones.
Over time, those choices shaped a life I never could have imagined —
a Robben Island crossing,
long open-water swims that ask for trust, patience, and presence, endurance
and a deep commitment to living in my body rather than escaping it.
Sobriety didn’t give me an easy life.
It gave me an honest one.
A life of freedom beyond my dreams.
Along the way, something else unfolded —
a calling to walk alongside others
as they find their own truth
and learn how to live it.
Not fixing.
Not rescuing.
Just holding space for what is real.
I’m still choosing —
even when it’s uncomfortable,
even when it’s lonely,
even when it asks me to let go.
One breath.
One day.
One honest choice at a time.
