4 Healthy Habits to Strengthen Your Emotional Well-Being for the New Year

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Whether setting up goals to lose weight, increasing savings, or creating meaningful connections, New Year’s resolutions usually revolve around creating direct goals to accomplish. Though they don’t last long on most people, there is one goal that anyone can succeed in no matter the ambition: emotional well-being. 

Emotional well-being is important for people trying to recover from addiction. However, painful emotions and memories can significantly relapse the process if the person is unable to cope with them. With these helpful habits, they can greatly benefit anyone’s mental health going into the new year while also benefiting the chances of a lasting recovery.

Practicing Mindfulness

How does someone going through the road to recovery keep track of their emotional welfare? Integrating the practice of mindfulness into one’s daily routine, in increments, while conducting occasional self checks for potential triggers, can be a very powerful healing step toward the overall recovery journey. The idea of being present and aware of oneself, others, and one’s surroundings are some of the most common traits associated with the concept of mindfulness. Anyone going through recovery can improve themselves by:

  • Eating without watching or reading anything
  • Giving others their full attention as they interact
  • Focus on their emotions rather than avoiding or numbing them.

Develop Self-Compassion

Being mindful can be uncomfortable, especially in coping with difficult feelings. Rather than putting the blame on themselves, people recovering from addiction should give their mindset a boost with compassion. Start off by talking to someone close; it could be a family member, a close friend, or a professional at Twin Town Treatment Centers. The next step is to follow that person’s example next time someone is being self-critical of themselves. Follow that up by having them tell themselves that overall, someone cares about them. Doing these steps can help increase their self-esteem along with responding to difficult challenges in a healthy manner.

Finding Meaning

Much of what’s happening in life can’t be controlled. But no one can take away from anyone their experiences in recovering from addiction. They can turn that type of negative energy into something more meaningful by looking through its values. Questions that come up with this topic include:

  • Did they learn something new?
  • Did something positive come out of it?
  • How can they apply what they learned going forward?

Strengthen Connection

Human connection is an essential part of our daily life. For those who are recovering from addictions, strengthening connections is a crucial step of the journey. Opening up to others, being genuine, and attempting to fix broken relationships can help those who are recovering to learn and grow in the process. While it can be difficult for people to stay connected in-person amid the coronavirus pandemic, various forms of communication exist as forms to keep in touch with loved ones. 

With Twin Town Treatment Centers, we have the necessary tools to help those struggling with all forms of addiction or substance abuse and to help them get their life back on track. Through these unprecedented times where we must all practice social distancing, we encourage patients to develop helpful and trusting relationships through the virtual landscape so they can strengthen their emotional well-being for the new year coming up. For more information on our programs, please call us at (866) 594-8844 to schedule an appointment for a no-cost assessment.