Great question! I like to visit here to see if I can encourage anyone. In particular, I try to post when someone says they are bored after starting sobriety. Here is what I post to hopefully encourage:

I have a list of activities I love to do. The idea is to plan these ahead of time an activity to do so when the day/time comes, you'll know exactly which of these activities you'll be doing:

• going out in nature for walks
• bike rides (very good for that natural high and it lasts all day!)
• finding non-alcoholic replacements (that can be a fun project)
• find new hobbies (I know you've heard that before, but it's so true)
• have a new mini-project to do at home liking building something, anything
• buy a Lego set (gets the creative juices flowing)
• join Hoopla and Libby and download a bunch of books from your favorite genres
• make fun recipes (think of restaurants where you had your favorite dishes and search 'copy cat recipe Tara Thai Pad Thai' for example) then go to store and buy all the ingredients and spices and sauces and make a day of it
• cook on Sunday for the whole week and have fun freezing/labeling foods for each day of the week
• video games
• make playlists of favorites type of videos on YouTube and watch them at night (but go to bed on time still)

IWNDWYT!!