Keep in touch with others in recovery!

I wrote a blog post earlier where I said that I felt like I haven't been doing enough work towards my recovery. Where that is true and where I feel like I do need to step it up. What I have done well is keeping up with friends I met in rehab.

I text people almost every day. This is SO difficult for me. I am a shy person who will spend 7 days a week on the couch (or actually pacing around the house while I say I am on the couch). With work in private counseling, group counseling, DBT groups and ect. I can actually spend that time alone and not looking for a drink. I have learned how to respond to intrusive and negative thoughts.

One of the ways I handle these thoughts it to label them and not waste my time with them. I know this is much easier said than done.

I continue to build the relationships with others in recovery. I can text them crazy shit and they laugh and will share an actually better and or crazier story.