Many folks in early recovery are struggling with the very real first few days of detox and withdrawal.  The first few days days can be brutal, both physically and mentally, as well as a wide range of other issues ie Natural Consequences of their actions.
It is important to remember that we need to take care of ourselves.. be gentle and reward any positive changes.   Some days, not using, getting out of bed, and small domestic tasks are a huge win.
That being said, it is vital that we look at some core concepts:  Self Care and Boundaries
Self care:  that is doing daily basic needs like sleeping, hygiene (bathing, brushing teeth, grooming), eating well, taking your medications, exercise, and any needed medical care.
There are several different ways to focus on self-care, many of which involve making time to get enough sleep, prioritizing healthy meals, ensuring a balance of leisure time in your schedule, and making time for friends. A simple but often overlooked form of self-care is having a self-pampering experience on a regular basis in your own home. Taking a few hours for a ​spa experience and some much-deserved self-care is also an effective way to manage stress for the following reasons:
A Break from Stress
Taking a break amidst a tub of warm bubbles or under the warm hands of an experienced masseuse can help you feel like you’re escaping a stressful reality and taking a mental and emotional vacation. As I mentioned, it triggers the relaxation response and allows you to come back to the reality of your life feeling refreshed and relaxed.
Time Alone
While different people have varying degrees of introversion and extroversion, having some time along is important for most people’s functioning.
 When you’re relaxing by yourself, it’s much easier to slip into a state of quiet meditation, enjoy some self-reflection, or let your problems work themselves out in the back of your mind, without taking all of your focused concentration.
Soothing Feelings
Giving your body some special treatment is a natural way to relieve stress. Other than keeping your skin soft and your body in good repair, spa-related activities like massage and warm baths have been known to soothe even small colicky babies like nothing else. Such activities continue to be effective tools for relaxation as we get older, but we sometimes forget to utilize them.
Once you’ve decided it’s time to start nurturing yourself and your body, be sure to block off some time for this.  Try to schedule a block where you won’t be interrupted. You need only to have a bathroom to give yourself a home-spa experience; you can put on some soothing music, and try some or all of the following suggestions:
  • Take a Bath: Get out the bubbles, oils, and scented soaps, and soak until you’re wrinkled.
  • Deep-Condition Your Hair: While you’re in the tub, put on a deep-conditioning treatment for your hair, and let it work as you relax.
  • Deep-Clean Your Pores: With a nice clay masque, you can draw impurities out of your skin and stress out of your system.
  • Care For Your Feet: After you soak your feet to soften calloused skin, use a pumice stone to slough off dead skin, and finish with a rich foot cream, and perhaps polish.
  • Nourish Your Skin: Rich, luxurious creams smell wonderful and feel smooth, especially if you exfoliate your skin in the tub before putting them on.
  • Tend to Your Nails: Correct the beating your nails probably take from your busy life (especially for those of you who bite your nails!) by filing and buffing. A coat of polish on can make you feel like a princess for days afterward. (This is probably more for my female readers.)
  • Get a Massage: This one can be especially nice. If your budget doesn’t allow for regular massages with a professional, see if you can trade with a friend or your spouse, or use an electronic massager.
In addition to pampering yourself, more substantial forms of self-care involving healthy lifestyle choices are important, too. Consuming a healthy diet, getting regular exercise, and being sure you get enough sleep are all important for long-term health and stress management as well.
Try the following self-care strategies to build a healthier lifestyle and greater resilience toward stress.
https://www.verywell.com/importance-of-self-care-for-health-stress-management-3144704
Boundaries
  • Guidelines that we identify to define what we feel are reasonable, safe and permissible ways for other people to behave around use and to treat us
  • Boundaries are not restrictive walls that close us in and shut others out
  • Can help minimize miscommunication an free us to enjoy a healthier relationship with our LO
  • Healthy boundaries are not about the other person or their actions. They are about self.
  • Remember the hula hoop? The brightly coloured, very simple, but hours of fun toy that we had when we were kids. I want you to imagine that you have one around you right now. It magically hovers around your waist area all the time. Now imagine that everyone else has one around them too.So often, we spend an incredible amount of time and energy on things that we can’t control. And then we get mad at ourselves for failing to do what was never possible to do in the first place because it was not within our control. This is the cause of much of the distress that people come to see me about.Ok, you might say, but what has that got to do with a hula hoop? Well, I might answer, the hula hoop is your very own sorting tool for differentiating between what you can and cannot control. In other words, if it is in your hula hoop, you can probably control it. If it is out of your hula hoop, you cannot control it and all efforts to do so are wasted.
  • What is IN your hula hoop?
    •Your body
    •Your thoughts
    •Your actions
    •Your opinions
    •Your values
    •Your dreams
    •Your wishes
    What is OUT of your hula hoop?
    •EVERYTHING ELSE!
    •other people
    •other people’s thoughts
    •other people’s actions
    •the weather
    •the current sad state of health insurance in the US *grins*
    •etc, etc, etc
    Are you starting to get the picture here? What is YOURS is in your hula hoop, and THOSE are really the only things you can control. Everything that is not yours belongs outside the hula hoop.
STEPS in Setting and Enforcing Boundaries
 Decisions about boundary setting: 
1. Decide what you want and don’t want from/with people. A good idea is to do this both in general, and with any person or situation that reveals that more boundaries are needed (you know you need boundaries when you are frustrated, angry, or hurt).
2. Decide to be extremely sensitive about boundaries (enlarge your boundaries), and to be constructive about enforcing them.
Steps to enforce boundaries: 
1. Educate or inform people what they are doing. Just inform them in a matter of fact way.
2. If it continues, tell them what you want and don’t want, and how you feel about that.
3. If it continues, warn them how you will separate yourself from them &/or their negative behavior, either temporarily (while it continues), or if necessary, permanently.
4. If it continues, distance yourself as you said you would, preferably short term, long term when necessary.
Great video on Boundaries and Self Care and how they connect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtsHUeKnkC8