Everyone gets into a rut at some point, or many points, during the course of their life. It’s part of learning and growing through the lessons we’re here to learn. Sometimes, those ruts are harder than anything else in life to get out of, and a series of decisions and choices took a long hard toll on your quality of life, and the lives of your loved ones around you. Reaching out to someone for help yields amazingly powerful results, as there is power in numbers, and even more power in asking for help.
Seeking help from someone else, or an organization that specializes in what you’re going through is really a true turning point for millions each year. Let’s look at a few ways to turn your life around today.
- Outpatient rehab. Outpatient rehab is designed to give you the support, guidance, help and structure needed to make lasting changes, after an intensive residency treatment for addiction or relapse. Treatment centers provide non-judgmental safe spaces to talk through and work through addiction, mental health challenges and other issues that may arise. Outpatient rehab is an amazing and much needed life resource for many people, in a variety of stages of recovery, providing accountability, a supportive environment and flexible scheduling.
- Leave your current relationship. Often times, deciding to leave a toxic or abusive relationship is the turning point. Though extremely hard, and often dangerous, it’s one of the greatest acts of self-love one can do. While it’s easy to blame oneself for making decisions along the way to entering in and staying in toxic relationships, what’s important to focus on is the present and future, while keeping the past as a historical bank of knowledge and motivation to steer away from.
- Change career paths, or jobs. Similar to leaving toxic relationships, leaving a job can give the same mental health benefits as removing oneself from a harmful and unhealthy romantic relationship. The weight of stress on one’s mind, body and energy levels is unbelievably, comprehensively heavy. Stress from toxic work environments infiltrates every facet of life, from happiness and joy, to relationships with others. Fear of being fired, unhealthy or dangerous work environments and toxic coworkers are some of the most common stressors. Long commutes and shift work are some other factors that impact many in the long run. At the base of it all, we spend ? of our adult life working, and it should be pleasant, enjoyable, challenging and upwardly beneficial to you and your family. If it is not, perhaps a change of job or career path is what could benefit your life the most.
Change can be scary. Asking for help can be scary. Going into the unknown and doing something different are always going to be part of the human experience, and learning to navigate those with greater ease and confidence comes in time. What we’ve gone through here are monumental changes for most, and shouldn’t be taken lightly. Take the time to consider where you are in your life, what the problem factors are and what is going well. For the things going well, give thanks and gratitude. For the problematic factors that need a change or removal altogether, consider your options and the best-case scenario for yourself, and move forward, one step at a time with making your life the best it can be.
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