Tomorrow will be one week sober. I feel really good but I am so bored. I forgot what I used to do before I hung out at the bar.
7 Likes
Time to find new hobbies, or relearn some old ones. the best part is you have time. I had to relearn how to golf. I was always drunk when I played. Have the courage to step outside the box and do something you always wanted to try. Congrats on the week, that’s an awesome stride!
1 Like
This is called peace, you'll get used to it.
3 Likes
I used for years, I feel this. I have learned a lot of activities to do to keep me sober and going
1 Like
Thank you! It feels so good to wake up clear headed!
1 Like
I’m right there with you ! 25 years old and i forget how to have fun without going to a bar, brewery , or brunch ! But it forced me to really try a lot of new things , I’ love working out , trying new coffee shops in different cities every week, cooking , trying new food places evey week, found out i am an AMAZING mini golfer (lol) and also found out who my true friends were, a few of them didn’t want to at times adjust to a sober friend , others had NO issue and encouraged us to so sober activities , sobriety can be a lot of fun if u try to open urself up to it 
Congratulations on your beginning. I don't want to discourage you from being happy but watch out for the pink clouds.
If I were in your shoes I would be going to AA meetings at least once a day for 90 days.
You just made a major change in your life that is really going to take some time to adjust to. Life is going to hit you from all different directions. Some of it will be good and some of it will be not so good. It's called life. Learning how to live one day at a time without picking up a drink is a great challenge.
Be careful about taking on new hobbies so early.
Read this.
Men and women drink essentially because they like the effect produced by alcohol. The sensation is so elusive that, while they admit it is injurious, they cannot after a time differentiate the true from the false. To them, their alcoholic life seems the only normal one.
They are restless, irritable and discontented,
unless they can again experience the sense of ease and comfort which comes at once by taking a few drinks-drinks which they see others taking with impunity.
After they have succumbed to the desire again, as so many do, and the phenomenon of craving develops, they pass through the well-known stages of a spree, emerging remorseful, with a firm resolution not to drink again.
This is repeated over and over, and unless this person can experience an entire psychic change there is very little hope for his or her recovery.
1 Like
That's amazing advice Dave. And it is very true. Y'all take heed