👯‍♂️ 3 Tips to Making New Friends In Recovery

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• ☔️ Daily Motivation: Learn from Your Past

• 🧐 Daily Dose of Therapy : Making Friends in Recovery

• 🧘🏽 Daily Meditation

• ❓Reader Survey: Do you find it difficult to make new friends?

• 😂 Meme of the Day

☔️ Daily Motivation: Learn from Your Past ☔️

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🧐 Let's Learn: Making Friends in Recovery

Friends are important. They can support you in your recovery, give you someone to vent to when times are hard, and can help you shape a better life without drugs and alcohol. But the truth is that making friends after recovery is hard.

A lot of times, our old friends are a bad influence. Yeah, you know the ones...the ones that threaten your sobriety. In fact, sometimes those are the only friends we have left after years of addiction.

But when building a new life in recovery, it's important to not only avoid friends that can derail your progress, but to also make new friends who can help you on your journey and support you through the bad times and good. It's important because if nobody else knows about your new sober life, then there's nobody to hold you accountable, nobody to offer support and advice, and nobody to discourage relapses.

So how can you make friends? Well, I'm not going to lie to you, it will take time and effort. That's why we are here to provide a few tips. Then, once you have friends you will finally have someone to tell about that cute barista you met the other day (didn't think we knew about that did you?). So, without further ado, here are 3 tips for making friends in recovery:

1. Get a Hobby: A lot of adults don't know how to make friends regardless of recovery, but the easiest way is to find something we have in common with other people. If all else fails, join a class or club for a hobby you're interested in. You will share at least one interest with everybody there!

2. Attend Support Groups: This one may seem obvious but going to support groups is a great way to meet people who have similar experiences...and are also sober. Going often not only helps you in recovery but encourages friendships and social support.

3. Reach Out: Sometimes the reason it's so hard to make friends is because we wait on others to invite us or start up a conversation. If you put in the effort to reach out yourself, then you take all the waiting out of it. Who knows, maybe your acquaintances are looking for friendship just like you are!

🧘🏽 DAILY MEDITATION 🧘🏽

One of the things that I most admire about the Zen perspective on life is its focus on letting go. Letting go of control, letting go of results, letting go of "needing" to know things that truly are unknowable. There are so many things that we don't need to know, but we live in a culture in which knowledge is "power," and information is king of all. This idea keeps us thinking that there's some kind of problem if we don't know a certain something or if we're lacking a certain bit of information.

"We hold fast by letting go." Letting go of our attempts to control things, our attempts to maintain control over every aspect of our life. We've all heard the saying about if we love something, we should let it go, and then we'll know whether it "belongs" to us when we see whether it comes back to us. So much of our discontent and our dissatisfaction comes from our unwillingness to let go of trying to control things and trying to cause just the results that we think should occur.

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