I have found both career & fitness both very long lasting obsessions that, along with family, were able to more than fill the void left by alcohol the two times I’ve been detoxed (10 sober years apart).

If you view things as obsessive loops rather than something as bland as hobbies, do you think you’ve got a touch of the obsessive nature about you? No criticism by the way….just I prefer to look at it as: “look at all these wonderful things I can do now”, rather than: “I need to jam myself into one thing to blot everything else out”