I recently watched the newly released official music video for the Kaitlin Butts song, “Blood”. A song about alcoholism and narcissistic personalities. I

The song really hits close to home for me. I’m over 5000 days sober now but I am still in the midst of realizing just how sick I was. It has taken me years to make some of the amends for the damage I caused others. On the flip side I have found myself in bad relationships and break-ups that left me wounded from the inside out.

Butts says she spends time watching the world around her. When she sees her friends and family go through trials and tribulations she writes about it and it brings her some sort of peace.

This is a cruel world we live in. Kindness and laughter is definitely the best medicine. I am grateful for someone like Kaitlin Butts who can use her words and paint the picture of something we have all gone through.

I know from my own experience that life can and will get better. It’s how we choose to view it and live in it. A change can and will happen. We all have the power within us to choose.

Pancho.