{"id":73956,"date":"2022-06-29T16:38:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kite47.com\/?p=73956"},"modified":"2024-05-02T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:24:12","slug":"3-reasons-why-you-are-bored-without-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/29\/3-reasons-why-you-are-bored-without-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Why You Are Bored Without Alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To eat mindfully means to be aware of your mental and physical states related to food. I couldn\u2019t drive home, I lost my phone, I shared someone else\u2019s secret that I shouldn\u2019t have shared. Now, sure, sometimes exciting things happen.<\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter' style='display: block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;' src=\"https:\/\/ecosoberhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/alcoholism-symptoms-dangers-1-1.webp\" width=\"308px\" alt=\"i drink when i am bored\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>The Boredom Dilemma<\/h2>\n<div style='text-align:center'><iframe width='561' height='318' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eOYiWzGZ0Us' frameborder='0' alt='i drink when i am bored' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But if you can\u2019t or aren\u2019t able to do a group class, at the very least, take a tech-free 30-minute walk every day. I  promise it will do wonders for your mental health, which, in turn, will help you feel motivated to do more things. So much of this list is not just about finding things to do, but treating the underlying causes  of extreme boredom in sobriety. Exercise is critically important in early sobriety and for ongoing mental health and wellness.<\/p>\n<p><img class='aligncenter' style='display: block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;' src=\"https:\/\/ecosoberhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/violation-effect-meaning-1-1.webp\" width=\"305px\" alt=\"i drink when i am bored\"\/><\/p>\n<h2>You rationalize downtime drinking with \u201cI deserve it\u201d or \u201cIt\u2019s just easier.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>This can lead to feelings of extreme boredom and apathy. If you have stopped drinking, and you leave your days up to chance, it can be detrimental. Boredom can strike, which is exactly what we don\u2019t want. If you start your journey feeling deprived, you\u2019re much more likely to experience boredom. Boredom is a natural state or emotion that\u2019s part of the spectrum of things we feel as humans, and we all experience boredom in different forms and at different times. In more severe cases, drinking out of boredom can lead to severe alcohol abuse disorders.<\/p>\n<h2>Bored Drinking: How to Defend Against the Sneakiest Trigger<\/h2>\n<p>And it made me feel joy that I hadn\u2019t felt in a really long time. And even though my pace was different from other people in my running club, I got to say hi to them, I got to be around them, I got to stretch with them. And that also filled me up with joy and connection with people whose life didn\u2019t center around drinking.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a casual drinker, you should understand the ramifications of regular drinking. If you find yourself bored without alcohol or drinking simply because you\u2019re bored, you might be developing an unhealthy relationship with alcohol. Regular drinking is often considered socially appropriate and normal, but if your drinking extends to when you\u2019re alone, that\u2019s a red flag. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecosoberhouse.com\/article\/boredom-drinking-and-how-to-stop-it\/\">drinking because of boredom<\/a> There\u2019s a very fine line between social drinking and problematic drinking, and one could easily lead to the other and cause serious health implications. If you\u2019re feeling content with your food choices for the day, you might be less likely to reach for a snack when you\u2019re bored. Now there were a bunch of other ideas that came up on the call that I wanted to share.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying the factors in your environment that trigger boredom eating is key to breaking those habits.<\/li>\n<li>And you say to them, there\u2019s a whole world outside, go to the trampoline.<\/li>\n<li>Another woman on my call said that she had found during quarantine a local farm that did vegetable deliveries and also the freshest eggs she\u2019s ever seen.<\/li>\n<li>Different activities will in turn create different thoughts and even the smallest change can start to make a big difference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Andy explains how a straightforward, 7-stage process enabled him to change a lifelong addiction to alcohol. Everyone reacts to boredom differently, but the way we react is vital to our health and well-being. Bored drinking is a surefire way for sneaky calories to throw off your weight-loss goals.<\/p>\n<h2>Start journaling.<\/h2>\n<p>But you get to decide what those things are. You get to pay attention to things that interest you. You get to pay attention to things that bring you joy, you get to direct what happens and suggest things. In drinking, we often let things happen to us, we drink so that our life will be more interesting and exciting. I used to drink because I never knew what would happen. I felt like anything could happen when I got rid of my inhibitions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u2019s also responsible for moderating moods and emotions.<\/li>\n<li>For other people, drinking alcohol out of boredom is a much more active choice &#8211; they drink to cope with negative feelings like anxiety or loneliness.<\/li>\n<li>Having the correct mindset when you stop drinking makes a huge difference.<\/li>\n<li>Now this is really hard to see and imagine when you\u2019re still drinking or an early sobriety when you\u2019re shaking and recovering from drinking.<\/li>\n<li>The one you\u2019d love without alcohol in it.<\/li>\n<li>Before I started drinking too much, I loved to write.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To eat mindfully means to be aware of your mental and physical states related to food. I couldn\u2019t drive home, I lost my phone, I shared someone else\u2019s secret that I shouldn\u2019t have shared. Now, sure, sometimes exciting things happen. The Boredom Dilemma But if you can\u2019t or aren\u2019t able to do a group class,<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/29\/3-reasons-why-you-are-bored-without-alcohol\/\"> [&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18336],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73957,"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73956\/revisions\/73957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kite47.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}