Reach out. Get coffee with people. Be curious about what people are doing, share your story ( which you are doing) tell people about what you are doing no matter how small, maybe attempt to to tell the story without it being full of sadness. I am not implying you should lie about anything but you can paint the picture a million different ways, so pick as fun a one as you can think of. I often found it things get a lot easier if the narrative in my head is just different than the one causing me pain.

Exercise of course.