Jill enjoys spending time outdoors with her family, friends, and pets when she is not in the office. She spends most weekends in the mountains hiking, fishing, 4-wheeling, and camping. Jill is an avid photographer and particularly enjoys Colorado sunsets.
Besides, it is all up to you to be the person you would like to become. If you need support in your journey, our team at Ria Health is always here to help you, and we’re only a call away. Boredom can be challenging in early recovery.
- Boredom can be challenging in early recovery.
- Alcoholism profoundly affects the entire body, especially the brain, heart, pancreas, mouth, liver, and the immune system.
- And surrounding yourself with beautiful things made me really happy not in early sobriety.
- You know, after you get through the days when you are so tired.
Find an alcohol-free drink you actually like
During grad school, she treated clients involved in the legal system as well as at a detox facility. After graduating, Karlie gained experience working in a residential program for eating disorders and a private practice before joining the AspenRidge team. Danny specializes in brainspotting and reality therapy.
Americans Are Drinking More Alcohol Than Ever
Today as an adult, I still find myself feeling bored sometimes, but I have a different approach to boredom, and a different philosophy on what boredom is. Ignoring the harmful effects of alcohol consumption and regularly indulging can have short-term and long-term effects on your health. If you find yourself reaching for a drink whenever you’re bored or looking to kill time, you should stop and take measures to correct these tendencies early before they become problematic. Most people drink to fill some sort of void, like boredom, loneliness, an unhappy relationship, job-related stress or anxiety.
Be mindful of your friends’ drinking habits
It can be your friends, colleagues, or family who know you for ideas of things you can do to fill your time differently. Meet and connect with such people regularly and let them know when you are feeling down or lonely. Find a support group and make contact with them regularly. This consistent connection will help foster healthy relationships in recovery with people who can support you and what you’re going through in the present moment.
This can be another way to inspire you, for a healthy and exciting life without alcohol, but also to not focus on everything that’s going on in your life that you’re not partaking in. I mean, literally, stop following the winery that you’ve been following forever. This podcast episode is about feeling bored in sobriety.
A lot of other people told me that, look – a one-month break helped them to kind of set a new habit and drink a little less. That’s definitely the case with Blair Benson. We’d all love to be the type of person who rises at 6AM, drinks kombucha, quickly writes a book and then goes for a refreshing hike – all before midday – but for most of us that’s not realistic. So if you wake up after a night of knocking back tequilas and behaving like a goblin, you don’t need to make it worse by drowning in self resentment.
Ways to Stop Drinking Out of Boredom
Take an interest in other people and what they love. My husband wants to drive cross country with my son, going from minor league baseball games to minor league baseball games. In the past, I never would have wanted to give myself assignments. If someone else loves hiking, ask them to take you on a hike.
They bought themselves watercolor paints, or beautiful Brain Changes Associated With Long-Term Ketamine Abuse, A Systematic Review PMC crayons. They sit on their front porch, and they paint pictures and they learn. I, personally, in early sobriety, took an online style class called “style and style mobility”. And it was a whole bunch of videos and prompts and notebooks. And that’s a great activity in early sobriety. It gives you something to work with, and you’re not spending money on a ton of new clothes.