What are your interests outside of alcohol?
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What are your interests outside of alcohol?
Me: taking pictures, occasional baking, trying new restaurants, decorating
Just asking because I have been having a hard time mustering up the "umph" to do much else outside of AA meetings. Need to get reinspired...
Just asking because I have been having a hard time mustering up the "umph" to do much else outside of AA meetings. Need to get reinspired...
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Science (also my job), psychology (related to my job), philosophy, arts, nature, animals, more recently yoga and exercise, raw food and cooking, meditation, travel... oh and music, how did I miss that one... too many interests? 
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Bird Watching, Bird Feeding, Plants, Flowers,
Gardening, Workout with Weights, Exercising,
Traveling on our Harley Road King Triked to
exciting destinations, Eating out, Shopping
online, Adding New Tattoos, My Husband...
all not in any particular order.
Gardening, Workout with Weights, Exercising,
Traveling on our Harley Road King Triked to
exciting destinations, Eating out, Shopping
online, Adding New Tattoos, My Husband...
all not in any particular order.
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I also really would like to have a pet (a dog or a cat, more likely a dog) but would need to change my current living situation to accommodate it; we'll see.
And I guess I dismissed the most obvious ones: reading, writing, and sex
And I guess I dismissed the most obvious ones: reading, writing, and sex
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Originally Posted by freethinking 
...I have been having a hard time mustering up the "umph" to do much else outside of AA meetings. Need to get reinspired...
That said, sometimes you just have to do things without inspiration. Say you were injured...Physical Therapists don't wait for you to be "inspired" to get out of bed. They don't wait for you to "feel" like it. They get you up and moving.
Get up and do something. Your inspiration will catch up.
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reading (bible in a year) a must to keep this #1
bicycle riding
a little fishing lately (hadn't done that in a long time)
hiking
trips to the desert in our simple little trailer (God's country out there)
church -- not to forget going to church -- I try to play hookie sometimes
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bicycle riding
a little fishing lately (hadn't done that in a long time)
hiking
trips to the desert in our simple little trailer (God's country out there)
church -- not to forget going to church -- I try to play hookie sometimes
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Borrego Springs California by Copley Productions
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Originally Posted by freethinking
Wha? Karate isn't one of your interests?
Work out with youngest boy at home
We have all the gear , go pretty hard .
I'll go back , when I complete education .
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FT - I found I was unable to do much during the first few months actually. Other than eat lots of sugar. I found that it was all too overwhelming to take on and my energy needed to be focused on staying sober and setting up a recovery program. The second week into sobriety I quit smoking cigarettes (debatable whether this was smart but I did it). At 4 months I got back in the pool and started swimming again. I layered in cross fit 3 times a week and have not been as consistent as I would hope but its okay - travel mostly. Last month, so 5 months in I cut out all processed sugar and wheat from my diet and have found a tremendous boost in energy but the first couple weeks suck actually.
Its definitely a layering process and if your like me it best not to take on too much all at once or I get paralysis of everything. I attend 1-2 meetings per week, step work with my sponsor 1 night and meet with my therapist once a week. I travel extensively and am off to Asia tomorrow actually. I used to watch TV shows on the planes and now I read books, mostly about addiction. I just bought Tolle's book, A New Earth and another book suggested by an SR member.
Take it slow - I would never heed that advice but in retrospect is been the one constant in this process for me.
To answer the original questions: My family, meditation, skiing, race cars, trail running, tennis, yoga, mtn biking (downhill and cross country), swimming, Xterra Triathlons. I am debating buying a plane and getting my single engine pilots license.
Its definitely a layering process and if your like me it best not to take on too much all at once or I get paralysis of everything. I attend 1-2 meetings per week, step work with my sponsor 1 night and meet with my therapist once a week. I travel extensively and am off to Asia tomorrow actually. I used to watch TV shows on the planes and now I read books, mostly about addiction. I just bought Tolle's book, A New Earth and another book suggested by an SR member.
Take it slow - I would never heed that advice but in retrospect is been the one constant in this process for me.
To answer the original questions: My family, meditation, skiing, race cars, trail running, tennis, yoga, mtn biking (downhill and cross country), swimming, Xterra Triathlons. I am debating buying a plane and getting my single engine pilots license.
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Originally Posted by jdooner
FT - I found I was unable to do much during the first few months actually. Other than eat lots of sugar. I found that it was all too overwhelming to take on and my energy needed to be focused on staying sober and setting up a recovery program. The second week into sobriety I quit smoking cigarettes (debatable whether this was smart but I did it). At 4 months I got back in the pool and started swimming again. I layered in cross fit 3 times a week and have not been as consistent as I would hope but its okay - travel mostly. Last month, so 5 months in I cut out all processed sugar and wheat from my diet and have found a tremendous boost in energy but the first couple weeks suck actually.
Its definitely a layering process and if your like me it best not to take on too much all at once or I get paralysis of everything. I attend 1-2 meetings per week, step work with my sponsor 1 night and meet with my therapist once a week. I travel extensively and am off to Asia tomorrow actually. I used to watch TV shows on the planes and now I read books, mostly about addiction. I just bought Tolle's book, A New Earth and another book suggested by an SR member.
Take it slow - I would never heed that advice but in retrospect is been the one constant in this process for me.
Its definitely a layering process and if your like me it best not to take on too much all at once or I get paralysis of everything. I attend 1-2 meetings per week, step work with my sponsor 1 night and meet with my therapist once a week. I travel extensively and am off to Asia tomorrow actually. I used to watch TV shows on the planes and now I read books, mostly about addiction. I just bought Tolle's book, A New Earth and another book suggested by an SR member.
Take it slow - I would never heed that advice but in retrospect is been the one constant in this process for me.
I read A New Earth twice. Really resonated.
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