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When personal growth creates distance from old friends

My old friends think I have changed since I started therapy and got sober and maybe I have but now I feel like I do not fit anywhere.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healing can outgrow relationships that were built on shared wounds, leaving us temporarily homeless between old and new selves.

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