Mindfulness
How to Easily Recover After Moving to a New Home
Guest Blogger: Heather Roberts
Moving away is never easy. As much as you have eagerly anticipated the move to your new dream house, parting with the one you have spent many years in may turn out to be harder than you thought. However, you need to realize that there is no use of mourning over the old, but to rather embrace the new. Leaving everything behind, both physically and mentally, becomes even more difficult when you part with old friends and family members. However, you will have to find a way to emotionally recover after the move and to put your life back on track. There are a couple of ways to do so.
Constantly dwelling in the past will bring you nothing good. It can only result in you detesting your new home. In order to avoid that, try to learn everything about your new home place. Knowing it is the easiest way of getting to actually love it. Buy a map of the town, visit the tourist information center, or in other words – go around and see what’s where. Get familiar with it. After all, this will be your home from now on, and you will have to know everything about it.
Be active and remain active. This is what will most easily take your mind away and cure homesickness (your old home, that is). Locate places, communities, and social groups of interest. It might be a sports activity or a crafts class. It doesn’t matter, as long as it keeps your mind occupied while you are not at work. Go to the gym, to a cooking class, or even to the library. Be around people. This leads to another advice – during the first few months after the move, try to stay at home as little as possible. This will only result in being overcome by feelings of anxiety and sadness.
Do not ‘break the chain’. What this means is that you must remain in touch with your old friends as well as your family. Moving to a new home does not mean you should abandon the people you love and care about. Call them every now and then and even visit whenever possible. Once you have settled and already feeling comfortable – invite them over for a nice dinner. Show them around town. Make them see that they need not worry about you.
However, the surest way to settle in a new town and to start feeling comfortable over there is to establish new connections. Meet new people, start new friendships. After all, loneliness will get you nowhere. Start off with getting to know you neighbors. They are the people you will most probably be meeting on a daily basis, so being in good relations with them is a must. Who knows, you might even become really good friends. Some folks are accustomed to welcoming new people to the neighborhood with a home-made pie or other treats. However, don’t wait too much to be welcomed. Knock on your neighbors’ doors and introduce yourself. Be friendly. You can even go as far as too throw a party for everybody in the neighborhood or, if you are not in such a wild mood, a nice friendly barbeque in your backyard will do just fine and will help you make new acquaintances.
If you have moved to a new townbecause of work or school, try to make acquaintances with all the people at your new school/workplace. After all, you don’t know where you will find your next best friend.
In the end, it all comes down to being positive. Keep a positive mental attitude and don’t lose faith. Smile, be friendly, and you will soon start feeling at home.
About the Author
Heather Roberts is a content writer from London, UK. She has great flair for decoration and interior design. She is searching for new challenges and hence often moves to different places. Therefore her present article is focused on how to easily recover if you moved to a new town.
