{"id":3573,"date":"2013-11-07T15:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T23:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2024-03-01T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:59:10","slug":"10-lively-ways-to-have-sober-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/addiction-recovery\/10-lively-ways-to-have-sober-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Lively Ways to Have Sober Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"
Most people struggling with addiction have found it challenging to rebuild their lives on a foundation of sobriety. Each new activity is approached with thoughts like, \u201cHow can I do this sober\u201d and \u201cI was only able to do this before because I drank\/used.\u201d<\/p>\n
Life met with sobriety can be a whole new learning process. Like a toddler learning how to walk, being clean and sober means relearning everything we thought we once knew how to do. When our medicine or \u201cliquid courage\u201d is taken away, we are faced with all sorts of emotions such as anxiety, fears, doubts, and more.<\/p>\n
One of the many reasons why it is so important to have a recovery buddy or a sponsor is to be able to express those feelings in the moment. While a therapist can help you work out and heal lifelong issues over time, a sponsor is someone you can call from the bathroom of a concert venue to tell him or her how triggered you are, so they can talk you off the ledge by sharing their experience, strength and hope.<\/p>\n
Of course, the most effective way to avoid<\/a> your triggers is to engage in activities that do not depend upon alcohol or drugs. We call that having \u201cSober Fun,\u201d which may sound contradictory at first. But as we progress in our recovery, we start to get to know who we are, discovering our true interests, likes, dislikes and hobbies; these may be very different from our family of origin or former peer group.<\/p>\n Recovery is about discovery, so we encourage you to embark on a journey to discover what you enjoy without using substances to \u201cnumb out.\u201d To get you started, here are ten sober fun activity suggestions for you to explore with friends or your recovery buddy:<\/p>\n Just because you are in recovery doesn\u2019t mean things are going to be easy from now on. In fact, the opposite usually occurs. We become more vulnerable, emotional and closed off if we are not part of a supportive community. Make sure there is at least one person you can talk to about your recovery and enjoying a sober life<\/a> that is full of FUN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most people struggling with addiction have found it challenging to rebuild their lives on a foundation of sobriety. Each new activity is approached with thoughts like, \u201cHow can I do this sober\u201d and \u201cI was only able to do this before because I drank\/used.\u201d Life met with sobriety can be a whole new learning process.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":7210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10153,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/10153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimumperformanceinstitute.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n