My SO will ask me what I want to do at night, and I just reply, nothing. Really, all I want to do is sit down at the computer browsing random shit for a few hours and then try to force myself to go to sleep early so I don’t think about alcohol. Board games, watching movies, going drinking because of boredom out, and other activities also lack the same pizzazz they somehow have when I’m drinking. The Hello Someday Podcast helps busy and successful women build a life they love without alcohol. And the call I just got off of what’s a zoom call and it was about the book, The Sober Lush.

Nothing Else Has Changed

We tried a few different options from boxed delivery to recipe and shopping list planning before finding what worked for us. Even just the novelty of a box of food showing up at our door was a great way to beat boredom. Thank you for listening to this episode of The Hello Someday Podcast. Some of my clients have done this and they absolutely love it as sober treats. They bought themselves watercolor paints, or beautiful crayons. They’ve got really nice heavy art paper.

WAIT, MODERATE DRINKING DOESN’T HAVE HEALTH BENEFITS?

• Or that you’re even jealous of?
• You may be a single parent, widowed, or unmarried and living alone.
• If you moderate your drinking, getting outside will feel even better.
• I met them for the first time when I interviewed them on my podcast.
• A local roller rink is a great place to have fun (and get a workout in) completely booze-free.

It slows your brain function down to a level approaching brain death. I used alcohol as an enhancement.. I mean everything, looking forward to watching my favorite show, cooking a meal and so on. In any case I got tickets and I’m about to go to the cinema to distract myself.

The Sober School

It was a part of the pre-trip planning conversation, mixed into group text messages about coordinating flights and booking the hotel. The problem occurs when our body begins to respond to stress by putting us into fight/flight mode in situations where it shouldn’t. This can affect our concentration and focus, our energy levels, and our mood and health. When we feel stress over long periods of time, called chronic stress, it can be detrimental to our health.

• We’re talking tiny sandwiches, scones, a variety of teas, and a very classy good time.
• Invite a few family members or new friends and break out the board games.
• Put together a playlist, turn on a disco light, and grab your dancing shoes.
• Setting aside the fact that this sounds like a case of developed alcoholism, the sister also seems to be confused about what will and won’t be provided at the wedding.
• All we shared was a love of wine.
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However, stress is mostly a physical response where the body switches to “flight or fight” mode. We release various hormones and chemicals like adrenaline and cortisol to help the body prepare to act. This causes the blood to be diverted to the muscles and can shut down other bodily functions such as digestion. It’s also known as the caveman rush because historically, this is the response that propelled us to either flee danger (flight) or step up and fight.

Journaling prompts can help you get started if you’re stuck. We’re talking tiny sandwiches, scones, a variety of teas, and a very classy good time. Here’s some classy background music to get you in the mood.

Boredom Is Uncomfortable

They sit on their front porch, and they paint pictures and they learn. I, personally, in early sobriety, took an online style class called “style and style mobility”. And it was from Dean Street Society.

Here are 10 things you can do to manage stress (besides reaching for the bottle)

• If a few in our group opted to go to a bar for a beer after dinner, I didn’t object but I didn’t join them.
• And that is something that you don’t realize you need.
• If you’re not feeling date night, bake yourself a loaf of bread.
• And the conversation was not only about the book, but there were 17 women on the call.
• Most locations offer a variety of different-themed rooms that will challenge your problem-solving abilities and teamwork skills.
• Waking up without a hangover makes that a lot easier.

Or is it just fun and fulfilling and it makes you happy without the wine? And you will never know that if you don’t try. But we are not used to being bored. And we usually drink at the first hint of being bored. If you have kids, you know that your kids always say, I’m bored, there’s nothing to do. And it’s usually after they’ve been watching the iPad for way too long.

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• Or maybe the things you used to do while drinking just don’t seem as interesting sober.
• I’m going to sit on the front porch, and rock.
• If you’re having trouble figuring out how to move past boredom, you might benefit from some outside perspective.
• Not worth driving to a wedding if there is no alcohol?
• Without alcohol, you are getting up and getting dressed without a hangover.
• It’s important to have the right mindset about sobriety.
• The information here on the Soberclear website is NOT meant to be used as a substitute for medical advice.

But look around for your new Hello, when you are leaving something behind that isn’t serving you. But you need faith and unique curiosity. And you need to stay the course and you do need to try, it won’t always fall in your lap. And you actually need this space, you need the blah, you need the quiet time between your drinking life and what is going to fill it up. And suddenly you look over and they’re doing something that you couldn’t even imagine that they would do because the thing that they were obsessed with was put down and put away.