Plan An Early Start

Register ahead of time for an early morning fitness class to prevent you from being swayed to stay out late or be tempted to drink. One of the best gifts of recovery is not being hungover the day after an event, so get up and enjoy it.

Try New Things With Your Friends

The recovery community is extensive, and it’s growing. Try new things with your friends in recovery. Listen to new podcasts, go to new restaurants and try new activities like yoga. There’s a whole world out there that you need to experience alcohol-free. Without alcohol, you can create some memorable memories and enjoy each other’s company.

Find Sober Friends

You may feel more comfortable hanging out with people that have also completed an alcohol detox or alcohol treatment program. You may need to modify your social circle to include people who don’t drink. Changing social habits might seem difficult at first, but you’ll learn through the alcohol addiction treatment process that avoiding people, places, and things that create a desire for you to drink should be avoided at all costs.

Sobriety is becoming the new normal, and there are a lot of people similar to you that are not interested in drinking. Places you can find people that may have an interest in remaining sober are:

• Volunteer Organizations

• Sober Meetup Events

• Recovery Support Groups

• Social Media Recovery Groups

Once you find a group of people that enjoy not drinking as much as you do, you’ll also see that you can begin to do things that you used not to be able to enjoy when you were sober such as snowboarding, going to the beach, vacation, hiking, game night, weddings, etc. the list goes on and on.

We Repeat What We Don’t Repair

Reflect on past experiences and reflect on recent experiences. If you’re unhappy with how something played out or how you felt, make sure you change it to increase your odds of success and the outcome you’re looking for. Being sober has many advantages; taking it one day at a time will find that sobriety has always been the best option.