You're listening to the Recovery Happy Hour, where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens after we stop drinking.

I'm your host Tricia and the only way I black out now is when I lose chunks of time on Tik-Toc.

Thank you so much for joining me.

On today's episode we're going to talk about what the heck to do with your time when you stop drinking.

When I was drinking my guess is that I spent about an average of five to six waking hours of every day drunk and

about five hours were probably spent hungover at a minimum. That's a lot of time wasted, you know, time not feeling good and one of the surprises for me in quitting drinking was actually how little free time I had with my recovery program of meetings, exercise, therapy,

morning routine, accountability groups on social media, etc.

But you can't do that all the time.

You know, you can't do recovery stuff all the time every single day or you'll burn out.

It's important to have hobbies, to replace your old hobby of drinking.

And that can be a real challenge at first, you know, if you spent your entire adult life being wasted as your hobby.

Someone wrote me and asked what they're supposed to do with their free time now that they're sober.

You ready for the answer? Here it is. Literally anything.

Everything and anything as long as you're not drinking alcohol.

Kayaking?

Sure, why not?

Bowling, roller skating, kickboxing, cooking, sewing, painting.

You could try any new hobby you've ever dreamed of and decide if you like it.

That's one of the cool parts about learning who you are in sobriety, you know, it's learning what you like to do.

I posted on social media and I asked it's learning what you like to do.

I posted on social media and I asked you what kind of hobbies you were trying out. And a lot of active and outdoor activities came up, which is awesome.

You know, hiking, yoga, bike riding, those are fantastic to try because physical activities

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