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You can definitely tell the early era til around 2016 was fueled by alcohol. And those were the best JEW records. But glad he's sober now.

Omg Lionel, I se you at the DSBC DESSERT SPRING BIBLE CHURCH NOW OMG U ARE SO GOOD AT ELECTRIC GUITAR GUITAR 🎸

31:00 that's it... It sounds so simple, but in reality it IS so hard to get to that point. Especially when all your life is doubting in your self worth. Jim, thank You for this interview as much as for your music. I'm dealing with - maybe not addiction itself, but probably both me & my son are autistic, we just started our diagnosis. For me - my entire life was a fight to proper communicate with others. I REALLY wanted to be heard & understood, but always felt like something was missing. My son is exact the same. So we're both fighting with extreme fear of "what if they'll reject me" and almost automatically FEEL rejected by everyone. I mean, Jim said a lot of universal truth, that is precious for everyone fighting with some mental difficulties. This man is kinda my role model for several years now... Thank You Jim for being so honest. Love ❤

I started listening to Jimmy Eat World in the Clarity era… they changed my entire musical direction. i started playing music in that scene and drugs and alcohol were a big part of my journey. I went into recovery 4 years ago and had no clue Jim was in recovery. It’s so good to hear his story, and man can i relate.

I will save my observation and first hand experience after speaking with Owner! Hopefully soon❤🙏🏿

JIM ARE YOU A KNUCKLEHEAD IN PHOENIX? I'm a knucklehead in Austin :)

Can I get how an occupational therapist can help alcoholic?

Addiction is a choice that ends up being a bad habit. Cancer is a disease.

Jim Adkins, the only rockstar who goes through a rehab program and quits his drinking problem and his fans respond with a full hearted "Wait, bro you had a drinking problem? What?"

YA RIGHT YOU'RE SOBER! IM GLAD YOU HAVE A MUGSHOT! TOO BAD YOU WERE NEVER CHARGED FOR ROBBING ME. YOU STILL HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING TO MAKE THAT RIGHT. YOURE A JOKE AND A PHONY!

I have been a Jimmy Eat World fan for a long time and didn't know this about Jim. I watched and 'liked' this video two years ago when I had a major drinking problem... Jim's self awareness was on another level to me at the time. This May I will be two years sober and it was a pleasure watching this video again through a sober lens. Life really is so much better, and I feel so much more connected to myself so I can better connect to those close to me.

Dona how are you know

Thank you for sharing

Wow there are some hard people in this world. Idk how jared gordon survived all this. It would break most people. It inspires me that no matter how mess up your foundation is, if you are prepared to put in the work/pain and process your thoughts/trauma you can overcome it. God bless Jared Gordon and i hope i can become half the man he is.

Thank you for this

So crazy how relatable his story is to me and mine from NY and anywhere really. Keep up the good work. These stories will help us heal

Great story and great advice at the end. Don't know how this hasnt more views

Awesome talk!

Karen, you are such a bright light for so many people. Keep shining girl. Thank you for sharing so authentically. 💗

This is a powerful share! Recovery wins again!🏆

You need to follow Ryan sickler he has a podcast called the honeydew he wants people on his podcast like you who can tell there stories.. he's amazing guy amazing comedian look up his podcast!

This was what i needed to hear tonight. Thank you both.

Your grit and determination is a sign that anything in this life is possible, you're my example to never give up and never quit on yourself.

I'm a school teacher and in recovery, I have a workshop designed to talk about the dangers of addiction. Love to talk to you guys on how to achieve this with pupils.

I genuinely enjoyed this! Love this!

Everything in excess, Nothing in moderation. I get it.

Thank you 😊

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Damn your a manager there now? nice bro

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Could u elaborate môre in how you struggle TO find happy relationships etc in the beginning of your sobre ty and then got good healthy relationships later?.. Was that just relationships? Or with everything in general?. I guess an asking if you struggle with happiness in the beginning of sobrietu and how LONG it took you TO get A foot hold onto happiness?

MAN I LOVE THIS GUY BUT I CANT HANDLE THE HAVING LUNCH WITH COPS. I JUST CANT HANDLE IT.

Why was A.A. bleeped out??

Thanks Chris.. Needed to hear this.

Chris u need to advertise u do private lessons

Legend

Maria!!!!!!!!!!! Awesome testimony. Keep crushing it!

What a great testimony!!! Thank you for sharing 🔥💪🙌🏻

I am so proud of you, I love you so much and I am so grateful we are sober and get to be loving sisters in a healthy relationship, I will love cornerstone forever for helping my sister break out of active addiction!! WE DO RECOVER !!!!

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Cornerstone Healing Center has the absolute best curriculum and quality of care in the desert south west !!!

Hell ya Lionel!!

You’re awesome Chris !!! You too Estel!!! The new solution helped me find a new freedom and new happiness in recovery I’m forever grateful for 5A!

I love liben! Just rewatched ultimate fighter season 1, man, watching him in season 1 made me feel young again He was the beat part of that season for sure Really loved his personality on that, he was a good bro

This was such a GREAT episode!!!😂 had me rolling over real issues🙌🏻 Thank you both for talking bout all this in the open🔥

This honestly really resonates with someone who has depression, but not an "ism". Depression is a way an addiction to being sad because that's easier than being happy and present in life.

Let me summarize the utility of D.A.R.E with one anecdote. Child me: Dad, what does DARE stand for? Dad: I dunno, Drugs Are Really Excellent? 20 years later - oxy addict. Totally clean and sober for 3 years and 3 months now - and I mean totally clean; no methadone, no suboxone, nothing. And FWIW, to anyone going through that, I recommend just going cold turkey (assuming you’re not doing heroin and would literally die if you went cold turkey); if you do use those, you’re just trading one addiction for another. ESPECIALLY with methadone; that stuff lasts forever; for me, it was better than the pills which got me addicted. Cold turkey is the way to go IMO, and I know everyone is different, but addicts are addicts for a reason, and we’ll get addicted to whatever makes the pain go away. Just tough it out for a few weeks; when you start feeling actual feelings again, you’ll feel very strange, and very good, and you get addicted to recovery. Put on an old Jimmy Eat World album (Futures still does it for me) and let music remind you what it was like to feel things. 😀 EDIT: interesting that “Integrity Blues” was the first sober album, that’s actually my second favorite album of theirs

Omg I need help 😭 tho a new big seed has been planted for me from this! Love you guys! Great work and thank you for this interview, maybe it will eventually get me out the dark x

This. IS. Badass!

What he said at 26:00 was so immediately relatable for me, as someone in early recovery (~6 months) having to reconnect with my art as a whole new mindset takes root, one where you can no longer honestly let your mind veer off into the negative (and just stop there) which is what a lot of rock is about-and that’s not a bad thing-since it’s usually the ritualistic gathering of band-fans around that shared suffering which allows for a catharsis. But as an individual artist, whose lyrics are solely one’s own at inception, it can feel dishonest to just put out a kind of half-thought which hasn’t necessarily been exposed to our newfound recovery-based thinking. This would render the art in itself disingenuous, since it was not a Final Product but an incomplete attempt at art. It’s difficult though, to feel like your art is bold and flashy when you’re just talking about recovery. But I’ve found that the real good music in the world (Floyd, the Stones, Dylan, great composers, Sabbath, Yes-these are just some of my favorites) incorporates that sense of SEEKING THE MYSTERY EVEN IF IT DECIDES TO EVADE ONE FOREVER, that recovery is all about...we are martial artists seeking to perfect our Art in order that we may someday Understand truly what IT is we are Doing.