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I’ve been hitting more meetings lately and I was just reading about DJ AM and wondering whether he had stayed connected in a 12-step program. For him, I guess it would have been Narcotics Anonymous. I wonder about this because whenever I am tempted to stop going to AA meetings, I hear about someone with a lot of sober and clear time “go out” or even die like DJ AM has done.
In the days before his death on Friday, DJ AM was “completely devastated” over his recent breakup with model Hayley Wood, according to anonymous sources quoted in TMZ and People.com. The sites reported that Wood called off the relationship about a week ago.
The breakup hurt DJ AM. He hadn’t been in a good place lately. For the past week, he wasn’t really around, he was keeping to himself, and he was blowing people off.
TMZ quotes an unidentified source as saying that since he and Travis Barker survived a fiery plane crash that killed four last year, AM had been suffering from stress that was only made worse by his recent split from Wood. The source speculated that the stress could have led AM to start using drugs again after being sober for nearly a decade, although AM’s cause of death has not yet been confirmed.
It sounds like DJ AM was isolating which usually means that they are not using the program to help them sort through their stuff. My heart goes out to everybody who loved him. He sounds like he had given back to others a tremendous amount before he died.
We all need inspiration. Inspirational and motivational quotes have the power to move us, make us think and spur us into action. Here is my hand-picked inspirational quote for today:
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until
they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
— Anais Nin, novelist
