Originally Posted by
August252015 
I should have said reading!! I am a huge reader, of all stuff. Even at the beginning when I could hardly concentrate on a few sentences, this was a big distraction tool for me. And I have stacks of recovery books, memoirs (love them) and a couple of workbooks (one is DBT, the others are AA step books I am starting with my sponsor this week). Those last ones came later but - cooking magazines or whatever floats your boat are super in the beginning!!! And you are online- so there's that option too, for all kinds of reading material.
I agree with August, I have rekindled my relationship with books. As a teen, I loved reading and wouldgo through tons of books each month. I'm trying a book a week right now, just look at lists of books and start checking them off the list. Hang in there, you can do this, never pick up that first drink!