Quiz: How To Be Your Best Self In Isolation

It's very important to know as much about yourself as possible. How can you expect to grow or improve if you don't self-reflect? Use this time to your advantage - sure, binge-watching old episodes of your confort show is great. But you need to remember that this will end and you will need to continue to sharpen those tools when life resumes.

You have to stay active socially, even during social distancing. Email someone special who you haven't spoken to in a while. Call your sober sister, sponsor, or mentor. Catch up with a good friend or supportive relative. It will make the time pass, improve your emotional health, and put a smile on the other person's face. 

Thanks to technology, you can do so much more to pass the time and create new memories. Even though we're "stuck inside," there are so many ways to make fun memories and keep the negative past from turning up. This not only helps those bad memories stay buried - it helps distract others as well. 

You want to be able to see where you want to go and you want to be able to talk these ideas out with someone supportive and safe. They can help you create a plan to achieve these goals and you'll be able to track your progress, since you wrote everything out.

It's important to maintain relationships with others during isolation because, while some of us would like to deny this, humans are social beings. We need social interaction to maintain our emotional and mental health. How many problems have you solved through talking things out with someone else? How much better did you feel after talking to a safe person about your emotions?

Your health comes first. But we're isolating to avoid spreading the virus even more - this is not only to protect ourselves, but those who are more vulnerable. 

Take the lead while in isolation and check in on those who may be the most vulnerable to having mental health issues while inside - or someone who is at high-risk for catching the virus. These people will need extra support and will appreciate the phone/video call. Show your loved ones that you care by showing up for them during isolation.