What crazy hobbies an interests have you done to stay sober? I’m an outdoorsman who has been stuck indoors with this unseasonably freakin cold weather and to keep sober and from going stir crazy, I decided to develop a new hobby to bring the outdoors indoors by learning to gold pan indoors. I think that I’ve become fairly good at it and may have enough gold to make into a ring to present to some lucky sober gal in about a year. I think that alcohol may have bored a few holes in my brain that may take more than a year to heal—lol. My sponsor thinks it’s hilarious. My pointed is sometimes you have to do something unexpected to bring some fun and laughter to this often dreary road of recovery. This mine. What is yours?
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I love your post. It sounds like your getting it and yes we get to try out new things in sobriety to find healthy things to do. I’m also an weather imprisoned outdoorsman but maybe…. Just maybe….. I might get out this weekend fishing.
Yes, fishing is one of my main outdoor passions, but the weather has not been cooperating so why not try something that I can do. I was riding a pink cloud for awhile, which dissipated, so I decided to try something new to create my own, and it actually worked and brought some joy and happiness to my sponsor too—lol.
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This is great, perfect type of thing to be doing upon pink cloud deflation. I have a person I’m working with experiencing the deflation currently. It can be scary and leave a person feeling lost In early recovery, did me:joy:. Just keep going it levels out again. There is much more joy to come, tight lines friend 
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I toss on a hat and coat and go rockhounding. I also take ice baths so that the normal cold feels refreshing and nice.
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Crazy ways to say sober, like," not today, ill have water" or my favorite" I know I've only been here for an hour but I got to go" or"no thank you very little"
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