How do you present yourself as a new person around people or do you just have to get new people?

I’ve had to push close people away. During then I did some healing ❤️‍🩹 and soul searching and found out they were unconsciously keeping me as a smaller person, needing them for any and every thing. I felt so pathetic around all of them and for the others, I feel I’ve grown beyond them and they too dragged me down.
Now they’re comfortably at a distance I am content with where im not feeling small and dragged down. But I am still doing lots of inner soul work to manage and understand my triggers so I can move forward and make a new chance in life.
However, I’m unable to find others doing this too, which is unfortunate because it’s a very freeing feeling and I’m no longer suffocated by people I should genuinely feel good around and I be curious to find others.

I think I need new people instead, if the people I pushed away have reached their full potential which overall drag me down.
How do you present yourself as a new person around people or do you just have to get new people?
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