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Finding your Tribe
"Sober communities now look different to each person in recovery"
Finding your tribe
It’s no secret that as you get older finding new people and friends to connect with gets harder, especially as your children get older and school parents drift apart. Now add in the dimension of getting or being sober and that at times seems like it’s damn near impossible. However in sobriety the absolute key to success is finding community.
Sober communities now look different to each person in recovery. Gone are the days where your sober community only comes from anonymous meetings in church basements or groups you reside in treatment with. Social media has opened up the world to possibility and allowed for strangers around the world to become lifelong friends.
If someone had told me two years ago that my best friend would be a retired grandmother from Idaho or that my boyfriend lived in Minnesota I would have thought that you had gone mad. But today, Cathy is my biggest confidant and Aaron is the true love of my life. Together the three of us run Recovery Unbroken, an online peer to peer sober support group. The Recovery Unbroken (RU) community has saved my life and allowed me to not just survive but thrive in recovery.
It’s no secret that I got sober through TikTok. What started out for me as an app that I would watch home cooks and puppy videos during the pandemic became my inspiration to live a life without alcohol. The sober community on TikTok is large and extremely supportive. Never in a million years could I have imagined that I would know people from all over the world and we would be a part of each other’s sober journey. It is truly using technology and social media to not only save our own lives but helping others to save their own.
Find what inspires you to get and stay sober, you won’t regret it.
If you’re looking for community, check out Recovery Unbroken. You will not regret it.
Good luck with your journey.
~ Donna