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Tatsy MicroMacro, is your post an advert in your life coach persona? If not, I'm glad you've stopped drinking, all credit to you.
But in my experience, I didn't need to "decide what I could replace drinking with" and instead, I found permanent sobriety in doing what Dwtbd said above - I simply needed to " replace drinking with not drinking and live my life".
My post is a reply to the OP.
I can't relate to what worked for you. I had that opportunity countless times and it wasn't enough.