Rebuilding Your Life In Recovery

If drugs and alcohol is all you know, it’s going to be hard to build a life outside of those things, but it can be done. You would have damaged the relationships that may not be able to be fixed. Knowing someone with addiction is hard. They want to do whatever they can to help you, but you don’t want anything to do with them or accept the help their offering.

When you’re caught up with addiction, it becomes your purpose in life. The desire to get high makes you wake up in the morning. You spend most of your time getting high or thinking about how you’ll get high. But this is a very shallow type of existence.

If there are things that you are passionate about, get back into doing those things. If played music or sung, get back on stage. Perform. If you were planning on writing a book, write that book. Find something in your life that is worth living for, but you also have to let go of things that may be a trigger. If there was something that you did that led to doing drugs and alcohol, you have to be able to let go of those things. Same goes for people. If someone you know was someone you did drugs with, you have to say goodbye and walk away from that friendship, especially if they are not in sobriety. They will encourage you to relapse. If you need to move to a different town to get away from people then do it. The longer you stay in town with things that can trigger you, relapsing will eventually happen.

You have to be patience with yourself. It’s going to happen overnight. You have to give yourself credit for wanting to leave a healthy life. It may take longer then you thought, but in the end, it’s going to be worth it.

Being honest about how your feeling and if you feel like you’re going to fail. Be open and lean on your support system. Have them help you, but you also need to be held accountable. If you say you’re going to do something like go to therapy, your support system will hold you to it and make sure you do. Don’t say something you don’t mean. 

Find a purpose after addiction. Your experience can help someone. Inspire someone to get sober. Sponsor someone, be someone’s support system. Take what you learned in recovery and apply it to your everyday life. Be the person you wished you had when you were struggling.

Think of recovery as a fresh start. You are a brand new person. You can be whoever you are. You can leave the old you in the past and use your sobriety to do things you always wanted to do. Challenge yourself to try a new thing every day. Focus on the good things in life.

If you keep busy trying to find yourself. The less time you’re going to think about the past. It’s time to be someone your proud of.