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I got a job as a photographer’s assistant. The photographer goes to daycares and schools to take the individual pictures for students in Pre-Kindergarten. Picture day, yay! I will be helping to pose the students, arrange their hair if need be, and encourage them to smile. It is fast paced work, and I will be done by 11:30am, so I will have my afternoon to run errands or do artwork. The job doesn’t start until August, so I will be using these next few months to get a healthy routine in place, find tasks and rituals that will keep me grounded, and allow my brain to adjust to a new medication I will be starting next week. I am so grateful to have this time to center myself and allow my broken brain to heal.

It is strongly advised that one abstains from alcohol while taking this new medicine. I was having a difficult time making harm reduction work for me anyway, I was drinking wine like it was water, refilling frequently. Try as I might, I couldn’t just sip the wine. So going sober is the avenue I have chosen. I have been sober for ten days, and my resolve is stronger than it has ever been. I am still having issues with my working memory and short term memory, and it is my hope that the new medicine and sobriety will give me a reprieve from an addled brain. As with so many things in my life right now, time will tell.