Dr. Brian Pennie
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But I felt a sense of peace.
For the first time in my life, I felt a sense of peace.
And I didn't have the language at the time, but I think that was a moment of surrender, a moment of letting go, a moment of acceptance.
I stopped fighting with my own mind.
I put up the white flag.
The fight was over.
And that just seemed to open up a space for something different.
And a couple of weeks later, I ended up going to a detox.
The benzos were in my system three weeks later.
I went to an opiate detox and I remember driving to the detox and there was a whisper in my mind, you might have a life again.
And this absolutely blew me away.
And it's crazy, Brenda, because if I could go back to any time in my life, people would think about happy times.
I would go back to that time in that detox because I just came back alive.
emotionally, psychologically, physically.
I can't even put words on it.
Like, I think it was a spiritual experience, but the world just glowed.
I had no phones.
I had no debts in that moment to worry about.
Obviously, I'd have to deal with that later.
It was nature.