In early recovery it matters much more where you are and what you do with your time as opposed to what you think or how you feel at a given moment.
Chris Edrington: It matters where you go, what you do, and how you spend your time in early recovery. He says if you build a routine where you're in the middle of the sober community, you see the same people a lot. What you get back from that, participation is a sense of belonging and purpose, he says.
Hey, guys, Chris Edrington here. So I was having a conversation the other day with some folks in early recovery, and I wanted to share this idea with you guys. The theme of this discussion was, it matters more where your a** is than where your head is in early recovery. And what we mean by that is that it really matters where you go, what you do, and how you spend your time in those really crucial early months in early recovery. It's my contention that if you build a routine where you're in the middle of the sober community, you see the same people a lot.
You work somewhere where people in the sober community might show up at a coffee shop or something. Your meeting routine, where you hang out with your friends, you're seen, and you're seeing people in the recovery community. Sometimes it feels a little intrusive. Sometimes it feels a little bit like I'm living in some wonderland, like Misfit toy Island in the Rudolph the red Nosed reindeer movie where the broken toys live. But the reality of it is that what comes back from that, what you get back from that, participation is a sense of belonging, a sense of purpose.
People will respond to you, and you will respond to them in this context of, we're all in this together. Some people call it like the aa nod, right? You walk into a coffee shop and you see somebody you might have seen in a meeting, and you get that, hey, it's really, really important. It's important that we think about those things in early recovery and build on that. Take that as sort of an infrastructure. Create a routine that makes sense. Where I'm seeing people, I'm being seen consistently, and then wait for that response and that feedback to come in.
And if you're paying attention, you'll probably have a sense of, I'm part of something. I belong to. This. This is serving me. And as you progress in your. In sobriety, that's a foundation you can build on. Those relationships will grow. Those people that you meet could become the best friends of your life.
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