Hollydoll

Hi guys,

I drank on Thursday to go to a domestic abuse support group. I drank a 35cl vodkat within 3 hours. I came home and did not drink anymore. and have been sober since.

Saturdays are always really hard for me. i live near a rugby club and there are lots of people at night walking past my place drunk , laughing and joking.

I'm studying a psychology degree and I'm 6 weeks in. I have lost weight . I am cutting down with smoking also.


even though i am doing well i still crave alcohol intensely.

I am going to paint my flat later on to keep busy and study for an hour or two.

can anyone share any alternatives to drinking that has WORKED well for you?

thank you all x

Coldfusion

Congratulations on your sobriety!

I choose activities that directly relate to my recovery--I go to three AA meetings a week, although in early recovery it is recommended to do ninety meetings in ninety days.

CRRHCC

can anyone share any alternatives to drinking that has WORKED well for you?

thank you all x[/QUOTE]

Choose a behavior that is of, "High Value," to you. If you don't have one, find one. Music, exercise, scripture, reading, writing, talk to a friend, meetings, etc.
What is the most important thing in life? Money? Happiness? Love? Those things are certainly important, but what matters most is good values. What are values? They are what we consider more important than our feelings.
When your values trump your addiction, there is no addiction!

D122y

holly,

each relapse put me in a deeper and deeper recovery hell hole.

i didn't know, or maybe i did and the addiction let me believe i didn't know.

now i am fully aware of this. what helped me stay clean was the moderate mental and physical issues i had when i quit.

i realized that the booze was medicating me. when i quit i suffered for months and months. it got easier and easier, but even today i still suffer and part of me tells me to drink over it.

i don't attend AA or anything but SR. This place saved my life.

now i approach each day with a new attitude and i welcome it.

i have non drinking role models. some quit drinking, some never drank.

i am very proud to be a non drinker. seeing drunk people makes me even more proud. being intoxicated does not make sense to me any more. the addiction was the only reason i ever drank.

now that the physical addiction is long long long gone, i try to thrive as God intended.

booze is poison, i don't believe the hype anymore.

thanks for the therapy.

Sober81

I drink soda water. Lots of it. Your doing well keep it up

SnazzyDresser

Good going, Hollydoll! A good alternative to drinking? I'd say just about anything else. A nice walk outside always does wonders for me, for instance. Or perhaps a colorful jigsaw puzzle for those rainy days!

noaddedsugar

Alternatives that are working for me so far are logging in and posting here, regular exercise and reading. Well done on 2 days When you hear those people at night drunkenly laughing and joking just imagine them waking up the next morning with a stinking hangover and feel your jealousy melt away haha

Dee74

Keeping busy is good - but what do you do when you run out of stuff to do?

I used SR a lot and I made a recovery action plan hollydoll:

https://www.soberrecovery.com/forums...very-plan.html (What exactly is a recovery plan?)