Finding balance
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Finding balance
It's true what some of you have said on here.....too much idling is not good, and neither is being too busy! I'm approaching 7 days sober in a few hours time....tomorrow I will seek to find a healthy balance between indoors, outdoors, chores, relaxation, enjoyment, etc. Today I have been lazy and it doesn't feel good.. from tomorrow, here's to making each day count!
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Originally Posted by UNITE4STRENGTH 
It's true what some of you have said on here.....too much idling is not good, and neither is being too busy! I'm approaching 7 days sober in a few hours time....tomorrow I will seek to find a healthy balance between indoors, outdoors, chores, relaxation, enjoyment, etc. Today I have been lazy and it doesn't feel good.. from tomorrow, here's to making each day count!
You're seven days out, so I think at this stage it's really anything you need to do to keep from drinking (within reason). For me, it was obsessively posting on Sober Recovery's February 2019 class and hitting the gym. There's a few things I lean into now - audiobooks, cooking and gardening.
I'm not afraid of the rare "idle" time anymore, either. Try some meditation and deep breathing. Guided sleep meditations were a godsend early in my recovery - because I was so used to using alcohol to clear my mind of anxiety enough to fall asleep.
Hang in there! Keep it up. Enjoy sobriety
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Originally Posted by Evoo
Alcoholics are used to "filling the void" with alcohol.
You're seven days out, so I think at this stage it's really anything you need to do to keep from drinking (within reason). For me, it was obsessively posting on Sober Recovery's February 2019 class and hitting the gym. There's a few things I lean into now - audiobooks, cooking and gardening.
I'm not afraid of the rare "idle" time anymore, either. Try some meditation and deep breathing. Guided sleep meditations were a godsend early in my recovery - because I was so used to using alcohol to clear my mind of anxiety enough to fall asleep.
Hang in there! Keep it up. Enjoy sobriety.
You're seven days out, so I think at this stage it's really anything you need to do to keep from drinking (within reason). For me, it was obsessively posting on Sober Recovery's February 2019 class and hitting the gym. There's a few things I lean into now - audiobooks, cooking and gardening.
I'm not afraid of the rare "idle" time anymore, either. Try some meditation and deep breathing. Guided sleep meditations were a godsend early in my recovery - because I was so used to using alcohol to clear my mind of anxiety enough to fall asleep.
Hang in there! Keep it up. Enjoy sobriety
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Yes balance. I'm a firm believer in this. A thing took me awhile to learn that was even when your not doing anything you actually are. You said your lazy? , are you really lazy? or do you need some down time? No sense procrastinating about what to do stressing out during your down time . Enjoy it for what it is. 
I remember when I couldn't even manage 7 hours. I'm so thankful we don't live like that anymore.
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I take one day a week where I devote myself to just being. It is hard. Not doing all the things that I "think" I need to do. Seeing how I am a "perfectionist" (not my words but I have been told this on occasion) it does take me a lot to relax and to not be a human "doing" all the time. Some weekends my physical body actually revolts and it does not allow me to "conquer" anything.
The dishes, yard, cleaning, laundry, fixing will always be there. Those "chores" are always there no matter if I do them or not. They magically appear every single day
Its okay to just be. You will get in a groove with your life and know what needs to be done when.
Onwards and upwards! Congrats on 1 week. You are doing fabulous!
The dishes, yard, cleaning, laundry, fixing will always be there. Those "chores" are always there no matter if I do them or not. They magically appear every single day
Its okay to just be. You will get in a groove with your life and know what needs to be done when.
Onwards and upwards! Congrats on 1 week. You are doing fabulous!
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