Or, an innocuous “let’s grab a drink” text with a friend I haven’t seen in years. And of course, there’s the third space that has become so beautiful and rare in this pandemic period. (My own third space has been the open-air brewery four blocks from my home.) Many of our third spaces do include drinking, and that’s difficult—physically, mentally, financially.
The person may also be under-stimulated or navigating procrastination and anxiety. 28 days
More of a rom-com than a serious look at alcohol addiction, this is a more light-hearted transformation film. After destroying her sister’s wedding, Sandra Bullock’s character is forced to confront her issue with alcohol, then enters rehab and comes out 28 days later. I actually started running a couple of years ago, but stopped when my hangovers started lasting several days. Back then, I couldn’t run for more than two minutes without wanting a break, but, I very gradually worked my way up to 5k with the Couch to 5k podcast.
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You’ll get to meet new people and be a part of something positive. When you begin to view your negative thoughts and feelings as problems to be solved rather than the embodiment of who you actually are, you liberate yourself. But I didn’t know what to do with them besides feel them. And the more I felt them, the more intense and blinding they would get. I over-identified with every negative feeling in my body. We are stressed-out, overstimulated, tech-obsessed creatures.
It’s easy to slip back into old habits when you’re feeling restless or unmotivated, which is why it’s important to find healthy ways to occupy your time and keep yourself busy. It can be difficult to quit drinking or pull out alcohol from your life when you think about your everyday stresses and pressures. Me reading these responses are making me think more of what I am dong to my family. I feel like I am functioning fine, but I also make dumb decisions, I dont know I feel like I want to scream or crawl out of my skin, I am bored but life is too much, I want to quit. I am over a year sober from pills but replaced it with drinking.
Sobriety itself isn’t boring
And because you’ve used alcohol to cope with stress for most of your adult life, the effect of alcohol replaces and diminishes your natural ability to cope with it. Not only is boredom a really uncomfortable emotion but we almost feel guilty about. We feel bad about being bored because if you compare it to other uncomfortable emotions, let’s say pain or nausea or disgust, we feel like boredom shouldn’t be a problem. If you’re in pain it is only natural to want to relieve or stop the physical pain. The decision to change these emotions is a good thing, whereas with boredom we almost feel embarrassed that we’re bored as if it’s something we shouldn’t be feeling.
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