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Josh Brolin, 8 years Sober
Actor Josh Brolin now celebrates his sobriety of 8 years
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Actor Josh Brolin is celebrating 8 years of being sober, as he thanked God, his family and friends for being there with him on his hard, long journey.
Josh is known for his many movie roles, such as "Avengers and Dune." Josh who is 53 years old, said sobriety is similar with knowing there is a recognition of the presence of God. "Sobriety is knowing that God is in everything and that it is made up of every color and mixture of color that exists. Thank you, God, family and friends for the most punk rock sobriety imaginable."
Josh said that, "Sobriety is finally loving without every thought being about how it only affects you. Sobriety is a moment of being able to love and be consumed by the glee it brings someone else. Sobriety is knowing the difference between selfishness and integrity. Sobriety is knowing the moon late at night, when she was there with you in your toughest hour, and now again, her witnessing your greatest joys."
Josh also wrote that sobriety is having the original they are growing into." "Sobriety is climbing in your truck for a 6 am call, after eight years of
sobriety and there being a card from your wife telling you how grateful she is for you having made the decision to put it down and to live instead, accompanied by a collage board of
his children looking at him, trusting him, seeing it in their eyes, and the way they stand before him. "They know they are not being cultivated into some idea, but celebrated for your children, that was created because of that decision. Sobriety is about living better than your remembrance of what your greatest drunk ever was, an everyday malleability into gratitude for what is. None of this is deserved. All of it is perception. Deeply grateful."
Josh checked into rehab in 2013 and used declarations of love, trust, life, and his children to describe his sobriety. But Josh has said that he is not a "religious person." "Everywhere we have traveled, the one place Kathryn and I always found a great solace in were chapels. Not being particularly religious, but a God feeling heavily inundating our lives, chapels have always been the sanctuaries where we felt most connectedly free to give thanks."
Josh and his wife named one of their daughters Chapel Grace. This was a reminder of God's manifestation that he felt when he knelt.
