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About Me<\/h2>\n

\u201cPeople don’t take trips \u2014 trips take people.\u201d \u2013\u00a0John Steinbeck<\/b><\/h4>\n

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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.<\/p>\n

I got sober at 23. That was 1994, and I didn’t fully understand what I was stepping into \u2014 only that I couldn’t keep going the way I was going. Thirty-one years later, I’m still here, still learning what recovery actually means when the crisis fades and real life takes its place. I’m a father of three, I live in New Mexico, and most of what I know about connection I learned the hard way \u2014 by going without it first.<\/p>\n

For most of those three decades, I noticed something nobody talks much about: the gap. The space between formal treatment and the rest of your life. The moment when the structure falls away and you’re just a person, trying to figure out who you are without the thing that used to define you. I built RecoveryBridge because I kept meeting people living in that gap \u2014 people with years of sobriety who still felt completely alone. The platform connects people in recovery with peers who’ve been there, no waitlist, no intake form, no cost. Just one person who’s lived it talking to another.<\/p>\n

I also do freelance marketing work, travel when I can talk myself into leaving New Mexico, and write here when I need to think something through out loud. I’ve spent extended time in Mexico, wandered through Morocco and Portugal, and somewhere along the way figured out that slow travel and recovery have something in common \u2014 both require you to sit still long enough to notice what’s actually there. This blog covers all of it: recovery, the road, the random thoughts that don’t fit anywhere else. You’ll find me at 55 asking the same questions I was asking at 23. Just with a little more patience for not knowing the answers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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About Me \u201cPeople don’t take trips \u2014 trips take people.\u201d \u2013\u00a0John Steinbeck     My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. I got sober at 23. That was 1994, and I didn’t fully understand what I was stepping into \u2014 only that I couldn’t keep going the way I was going. Thirty-one years later, I’m still here, still learning what recovery actually means when the crisis fades and real life takes its place. I’m a father of three, I live in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkjackson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkjackson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkjackson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkjackson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burkjackson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/burkjackson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"https:\/\/burkjackson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burkjackson.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}