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Hello darling heart, and welcome to the drink less, live better podcast. This is the podcast that helps you to see that drinking

less doesn't need to be stressful, lonely, or boring. I'm your host, Sarah Williamson, and I decided to have a year alcohol

free as a little life experiment and haven't looked back. With my experience and training, I now help other women with their

alcohol free or drink less adventures. You can find out more about me and sign up to my 5 day drink less challenge at drink

less livebetter.com. I'm here to tell you that you can relax, connect, and have fun without alcohol in your life. Join me

here each week to find out how. If you hang out in the sober sphere for long enough, you'll see and hear the conversations

around how much more time you get back in your life once you stop drinking. There's no doubt about it. Alcohol is a massive

time thief. Shopping for it, thinking about drinking it, the way productive or creative gets started, worked on, all finished

once you've opened the bottle, and of course the time spent nursing, if not hangovers, then low level brain fog, not quite

firing on all cylinder moods. Yep, alcohol will steal your time. One pathway towards recovery and wellness is to use some

of that time on your physical fitness, And in one group I'm in, the lovely group members talk a lot about marathon training,

Ironman fitness, spartan events, obstacle courses and mud runs. I can guess what each of these things are, but I have no desire

to learn any more about them. 2 years ago, at this time of year, I put a photo in the group of my own idea of a marathon,

which, at the time, was a marathon of marmalade making. I'd spent hours juicing, pithing, and really finely slicing my oranges

and bubbling the marmalade on the stovetop. It's one of my absolute favourite start of the year activities, and I added a

photo of 10 beautifully colored, rich sunset orange jars. It was my most commented post in the group ever. Oh, thank goodness.

I thought we were only supposed to have fitness goals. Wow. Beautiful. I thought I had to have a physical challenge. Thank

you for this. I felt left out by not going for long training runs. And that's the thing. We all have different shaped holes

to fill in our lives. We each have 24 hours in a day, but how we fill those hours needs to feel good for us all as individuals.

So, there's physical fitness and well-being. What other activities fill your emotional and spiritual cups? Well, this is the

bit where I come on to talk about hobbies and pastimes. Some of us found some new ways to spend time during the pandemic.

There was a surge in sales of jigsaws, puzzle books, board games. We took to picking up old creative activities like cake

making and decorating, sewing, knitting, crocheting, bread baking, painting, drawing and a squillion other things. I was glad

to see friends picking up old activities and reacquainting themselves with something they loved, but I felt frustrated. I

wanted an actual hobby and I couldn't find one that I loved. I just couldn't stick with one thing. I did art at a level, and

I consider myself to be creative, so why couldn't I just pick up tools and get on with something? I was so about it, and then

I stopped. I let go of some old stories. I allowed in some new thoughts, feelings and emotions, and I was ready to rethink

what I wanted. Are you ready for this? Okay. Well, here here it is. This is what my hobby now is. Trying new stuff. I know

that's not a snappy, easy to understand little title, like knitting, but it works for me. I love trying new stuff. Over the

last few years, I've made jewellery, made a macrame plant hanger, painted with acrylics, made a terrarium, embroidered, collaged,

kintsugi'd, colored, made a clay model, and more. Trying new stuff lets down all the barriers. I don't have to be brilliant

at anything, which the perfectionist in me is delighted about. I can play. I have freedom to explore and either love or put

down and move on. I let go of expecting fabulous outcomes and create for joy. I either explore from equipment I have at home

or borrow from friends. I buy kits from Etsy or similar, or ask for them as gifts, or I go and join classes for one day with

other creatives or at adult education centers. I don't care about the cost because I'm not spending my cash on Vino anymore.

So I'd love to know what you're doing with some of your alcohol free time. I'll gladly cheer you on for your marathon training,

if that's your bag, and I'd also love to hear about your hobbies, or if trying new stuff is going to be your new hobby. Thank

you for listening in again today. Please listen again next week, and PS, I believe in you.