Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGmNfDfUT5M Starts at: 02:44:32 (jump to 02:44:32)
MC Reflection on Addiction Monologue & Breathing Exercise
[02:44:32] To make it time [02:44:39] Hit those, Jen, hit those lights. [02:44:51] Is he gonna be okay? [02:44:56] Oh, you should. [02:44:58] I hope so. [02:44:59] Okay. [02:45:01] Wow. [02:45:01] I honestly thought he was gonna bring him on stage [02:45:05] and we were about to see something. [02:45:06] We were praying not to ever see. [02:45:11] But I think that was such a powerful metaphor [02:45:15] for how addiction and mental illness just claims lives, [02:45:21] how it just interrupts everyone’s day-to-day, [02:45:24] how it anchors us to our beds or to our homes, [02:45:28] and just to see that visualization, [02:45:31] for me, scary as fuck. [02:45:33] I’m not gonna lie. [02:45:34] I’m not gonna lie. [02:45:35] He got me. [02:45:36] He got me good. [02:45:37] But to see that realization, [02:45:40] I just know that there are so many other people [02:45:43] who experience this, [02:45:44] and I’m just happy to know [02:45:46] that we can all be in the same room together, [02:45:49] rejoice, connect over our struggles, our humanity. [02:45:55] So again, if you guys need to breathe, [02:45:58] we gonna breathe together. [02:46:00] We gonna breathe. [02:46:01] But just don’t forget this message here. [02:46:05] Can we do a deep breath real quick? [02:46:09] And hold. [02:46:12] Exhale slow. [02:46:15] That was a lot. [02:46:19] Oh, why you gonna take the list?