Happy to report that it has been 18 years since the last time I ruined the holiday season with cocaine and alcohol. EIGHTEEN YEARS. My recovery is old enough to vote, have sex, and go to war.

If you have lost the plot in your life like I had lost the plot for so long back then, I hope you will imagine a different story for yourself. Start telling that new tale in the mirror, then to the people you meet. Edit out the parts that have been causing suffering and humiliation, then live that new story. Show the people in your life that things have changed by being different. Do this over and over. Wake up every single day and try and make the new story true. Zoom in on love and dogs and all the happy stuff you can find and I promise you, someday it will be.

(Photo: Josué Rivas for INDÍGENA)

Ten years ago this weekend I launched a public health campaign with a few people you may have heard of. We decided to try and make talking about mental health cool and used pop music and rock and roll to reach people.

And it worked!!

Ultimately saved lives and got to collaborate with literally all of my musical heroes. Won a bunch of national awards. Program got adopted by public schools across the State. Just an absolutely magical time in my life.

Thank you to Sheila Hamilton, Sabrina Carpenter, Macklemore, Flo Rida, Kevin Bacon, Alice Cooper, Violent Femmes, Blind Pilot, Jack Antonoff / Bleachers, Madison Beer, Viola Davis, Third Eye Blind, Mike Doughty, CJ McCollum, Ryan Seacrest, The Dandy Warhols, Brendon Urie / Panic At The Disco, my forever homies and collaborators Portugal. The Man, and the hundreds upon hundreds of other bands, artists, authors, actors, and friends who joined me in the campaign over those years.

We did a big thing and I love you all.

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