When beginning your sober journey, a noticeable area of change is often in the dynamics of your friendships and relationships. You may need to heal friendships that you have damaged in your drinking days, you may need to \u2018come out as sober\u2019 to your friends or you may need to make space for your new sober friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Below are our top tips on how to navigate your friendships as your sober self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0We personally found the more honest we were about our sobriety the better our friendships became. We were totally honest with our nearest and dearest as to why we were making this decision and because these people love us they wanted the best for us. You will be surprised how supportive people will be when they know your why. Honesty is definitely the best policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Suggest other ideas away from your usual drinking environments that you would usually hang out in together. Go to an exercise class, meet for brunch, go for a walk and grab coffee. You can still spend together but you just need to change what you would usually do together (AKA getting smashed)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This has been one of the most game changing and rewarding things we have done in our sobriety. It means you have a strong network of people that truly understand you, support you and are your sober cheerleaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0Make sure you are realistic with your friendships. For example if you are going on a boozy night out and you know everyone will be drinking, manage expectations and let them know you will be attending but not be staying the whole night or if it\u2019s something that is to triggering politely decline and organise a lunch on a future date. Don\u2019t feel like you have to attend everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes people won\u2019t get it and just like life friendships ebb and flow. There will be some people that you may feel disconnected to with your new found sober lifestyle but there will be others you will grow closer to who will be able to better support you. It\u2019s okay to let people go and free up space for you and for new friends to flow in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Let\u2019s stop beating around the bush and be honest about this: when we get close to 30, we all get a little anxious. We all feel like youth is abandoning our body, like old age is just around the corner. You can relax of course, because that is just not the case! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"\n