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Early Sobriety Tips For Success (Social Media and Recovery) -Recovery Concepts #10

11 May 2019 · 1 min

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Short YouTube advice segment in which Amber Hollingsworth recommends people in early recovery take a temporary break from social media. She argues social platforms often act as triggers—evoking shame, FOMO, or feelings of exclusion—and suggests removing apps from your phone (without permanently deleting accounts) to reduce emotional stress during early sobriety.

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Taking a break from social media, if you look at it a lot, is one of the simple things that you can do that might make this whole process a little bit easier for you. For a lot of people, social media is a trigger. It triggers up negative feelings about themselves. It makes them feel like they're different or why, or other people's lives are better, or it makes them feel like they're missing out. You know, if it's summertime and you go on Facebook and you see everybody out on the boat drinking or whatever it is, it's just gonna trigger you up. Especially if you're following all your old friends and they're, like, out there doing all this stuff, and you're gonna be feeling left out. So just don't make it hard on yourself. If that's a thing for you, take it off your phone. That doesn't mean you have to, like, disconnect your whole profile or whatever. Maybe you want it back on eventually, but for now, just take it off of there. It's just gonna make life a little easier for you. You don't need the extra emotional stress. It.