🎁 7 Gifts to buy this Friday

and how to survive holiday shopping.

Author

Chelsey Mears
November 23, 2022

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Here’s what's in store for you today:

  • 🏃 Daily Motivation: It's not a race

  • 🦃 Daily Dose of Therapy: Tips to Survive Holiday Shopping

  • 🎁 Buyers Guide: 7 Recovery Gifts from Amazon

  • 😂 Meme of the Day

🏃 Daily Motivation: It's not a race🏃

Pic of a starry sky with the quote, "Recovery is not a race, you don't have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would. "

Are you wasting valuable time & energy? How can you be more present?

🦃Daily Dose of Therapy: Tips to Survive Holiday Shopping

From mid-November to January, the holidays can be incredibly stressful. On top of your everyday life & all the responsibilities that come with it, you add in all the shopping, gatherings, & traditions of celebrating & suddenly it's all too much.

Pic of a stressed out girl with the heading, "When you get so stressed that your stress starts stressing you out to the point where you're too stressed to deal with your stress."

One of the most common stressors is managing holiday shopping. So here are some of the top tips & tricks that recovery experts say will help you shop without having a drop.

  • Make a Budget & stick to it. Decide how much you want to spend on gifts, financial experts say no more than 1-2% of your annual income, & hold yourself to that amount. Financial stress is a potential trigger you can try to avoid.

  • Make a plan early. Only Santa can do it all in one night. You don’t have to be months ahead of everyone else, but setting a budget, saving for a bit, & completing the bulk of your shopping by early December will save you so much hassle. Less worrying about shipping times or products being out of stock, plus you’ll still have time for any last-minute sales.

  • Make a list & check it twice. Avoid tons of extra work by making shopping lists & planning out your commitments. Double-checking them can minimize multiple trips, double-booking events, and more hassles than you bargained for.

  • Listen to that cold-hearted chick from Frozen & Let It Go! So what if the gift isn’t perfect, or the yams don’t taste like Grandma’s? It is what it is! There is no better gift than the one you’re working on every day which is relearning how to be the best version of yourself through recovery. And that’s gotta taste sweeter than any candied yams!

Gif of Elsa from frozen singing Let It Go.

Don’t forget about yourself. Some stress is bound to happen during the holidays. Make sure you remember to rest & recover. Sometimes that may mean taking some get centered & focus on yourself. Hit a meeting, spend some time journaling, or have a nice chat with someone in your recovery support system to help you get back on track.

🎁 Buyers Guide: 7 Recovery Gifts from Amazon

Once the leftovers are put away, and everyone settles in for a Post-Thanksgiving nap, the only thing left to do is acknowledge that there are only 30 short days til jolly ol’ Saint Nick makes his way to town.

Have you even started Holiday Shopping yet? Cough,meneither,cough.

We’ve compiled a list of 7 great gifts for those in recovery. The good news is they’re all available at Amazon.com, for the ones who would rather eat a truck tire than visit a department store.

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Hyperlinked image of 2 Makeup Bag pouches. White with black detail. One has a butterfly & says sisters in recovery. the 2nd says Faith, serenity, hope, & love. We do this together.
Hyperlinked image of Green & multicolored 12 Step Coloring Book & Journal for Adults.
Hyperlinked Image of Charcoal colored Women's T-shirt with image of a woman with a messy bun and a wrap in her hair with NA on it, & sunglasses with NA Symbol in sunglasses. Words above & below read No Shame in my Recovery Game.
Hyperlinked Image of a Ross-Simmons Sterling Silver Bolo Bracelet with silver beads and a pendant with the Serenity Prayer.
Hyperlinked Image of The Addiction Recovery Workbook: Powerful skills for preventing relapse every day.

As you shop for friends, family, sponsors, & other loved ones, don’t forget to treat yourself too. Working on recovery put you on the nice list this year, ya know.

😂 MEME OF THE DAY 😂

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