Good morning, all!
Welcome D122y.
Fradley, perhaps your creativity was suppressed by the alcohol? It's also easy to ascribe everything to our addiction and some feelings were maybe simply suppressed when we were drinking? Great that you are finding so much to enjoy and that you are feeling better about yourself. One thing I have found is that I will never be so solidly sober that I can ignore the work that I need to do. It does get easier over time. My longest sober spell was 13 years and I thought I had arrived. Now I have accepted that I will always be an addict.