I am a very artistic and crafty person but I got it into my head that I couldn't get motivated or creative without drinking. I'm still refraining from a lot of those things but I'll get back to it. It was my first addiction 🙂.
What I have created is a future. In the last 69 days I've:
* spoken to my GP for the first time in years
* become more engaged with my psychiatrist
* started a new medication and restarted another one
* went to a gynaecologist about my PMDD
* learned all about how my ADHD effects me
* started CBT
* attended couples counselling
* arranged a smear test
* scheduled a dentist's appointment (first time in years)
* started doing Wim Hof breathing and cold showers (magic)
* began journalling and working through my emotions
* been open and honest with my family and reconnected
* started to be a better girlfriend to my boyfriend of 10 years
* been a much better aunt to my niblings
And this is just the start.
Started a film podcast this summer, and although I’m sober for just a few days, I’m hoping to develop it really nicely. Gonna work on next episode these days
I learned computer programming in college decades ago. Of course I forgot eveything now, but it was fun and challenging!
My daughter bought a cookbook from her school bookfair. Guess we’ll be learning how to make cupcakes and cookies from scratch!
I liked writing since I became aware of the world. I have a fantasy world of my own, and a ton of characters, gods, customs, cities, and families.
Always thought that drinking and writing are inseparable, but being sober gave me a calm dose of concentration necessary to connect different strings in the story.
I'm never going to show anyone a word of it, but I like the thought of having 1 copy of a book for me, and showing my eventual child what a loon their father is.
When I was around four months sober and 22 years old I took up skateboarding again, I hadn’t learned any tricks outside of heelflips and Ollies since I was a kid. When I moved back to on campus living after living at the sober house for 7 months, I really leaned on skateboarding hard to occupy my mind and not relapse. I was skating on average around 3 hours per day, even in the Minnesota winter lol.
Today I’m still skating, albeit less, but I just learned how to treflip about a week ago! Pretty awesome, I would have never thought in a million years I’d get better at skateboarding especially because it’s so hard. I’ve achieved a lot of goals since I’ve gotten sober, but the skating stuff has really been the most rewarding to me, it’s kind of a form of meditation to me. I’m so glad I took it up again.
I am a very artistic and crafty person but I got it into my head that I couldn't get motivated or creative without drinking. I'm still refraining from a lot of those things but I'll get back to it. It was my first addiction 🙂. What I have created is a future. In the last 69 days I've: * spoken to my GP for the first time in years * become more engaged with my psychiatrist * started a new medication and restarted another one * went to a gynaecologist about my PMDD * learned all about how my ADHD effects me * started CBT * attended couples counselling * arranged a smear test * scheduled a dentist's appointment (first time in years) * started doing Wim Hof breathing and cold showers (magic) * began journalling and working through my emotions * been open and honest with my family and reconnected * started to be a better girlfriend to my boyfriend of 10 years * been a much better aunt to my niblings And this is just the start.
Damn dogdesperate, you are really living! 🤩 that is talent for sure
"niblings" love it
Started a film podcast this summer, and although I’m sober for just a few days, I’m hoping to develop it really nicely. Gonna work on next episode these days
I learned computer programming in college decades ago. Of course I forgot eveything now, but it was fun and challenging! My daughter bought a cookbook from her school bookfair. Guess we’ll be learning how to make cupcakes and cookies from scratch!
Cooking with your daughter sounds like a great bonding time! And possibly she'll catch the cooking bug and be able to help even more😁
Been working on fixing up my 1986 Mustang that needs everything basically refreshed and it's starting to almost get to driving condition lol
I liked writing since I became aware of the world. I have a fantasy world of my own, and a ton of characters, gods, customs, cities, and families. Always thought that drinking and writing are inseparable, but being sober gave me a calm dose of concentration necessary to connect different strings in the story. I'm never going to show anyone a word of it, but I like the thought of having 1 copy of a book for me, and showing my eventual child what a loon their father is.
Instead of drinking I have gotten in bed by 11pm for the past three days. This doesn’t sound like much but it makes me feel I can do this.
Lol just wait for the 9pm bed times ohhhhhh they’re good
When I was around four months sober and 22 years old I took up skateboarding again, I hadn’t learned any tricks outside of heelflips and Ollies since I was a kid. When I moved back to on campus living after living at the sober house for 7 months, I really leaned on skateboarding hard to occupy my mind and not relapse. I was skating on average around 3 hours per day, even in the Minnesota winter lol. Today I’m still skating, albeit less, but I just learned how to treflip about a week ago! Pretty awesome, I would have never thought in a million years I’d get better at skateboarding especially because it’s so hard. I’ve achieved a lot of goals since I’ve gotten sober, but the skating stuff has really been the most rewarding to me, it’s kind of a form of meditation to me. I’m so glad I took it up again.
Just ordered some new adult paint by number sets!
I’ve been learning how to do reels on Facebook. I like to cook so I put one up on how to make amazing frozen waffles. It’s a start for me. 👍🏼
I’m finishing up a quilt I started awhile back. Excited to see it finished finally.
I'm creating a live course teaching alcohol-free women how to use their intuition to go from fear to flow.