Thanks, team.So. I have 5 am-6 am open. (When school starts, that will sometimes be taken up with studying.)I have some exercise stuff I do, but have been looking for a good yoga home practice.Does anyone have any good home-yoga resources? I am bombarded by ads for home practice but would appreciate recommendations. :)

My friend likes Yoga with Adriene on Youtube. Her tone can be a little corny sometimes, but she has videos for all levels, plus a foundations series which helps you get a better grip on a lot of the foundational poses.Exercise has definitely helped. Also, cooking.

I know it sounds ridiculous but that DDP Yoga is supposed to be fantastic. I don't think you have to buy the program unless you get into it hardcore and want to do more and support the thing, but you can go as easy or as crazy as you want, so it's not super intimidating to beginners.

I have been very stuck at work since I quit drinking about a year ago. I somehow got promoted into a position that has me doing a lot more self-directed project type stuff and I get catatonically anxious whenever I even think about properly starting any of the goals I have to finish by July.

Thank you, FM bumble. I will try that.

biscuitdough wrote:I have been very stuck at work since I quit drinking about a year ago. I somehow got promoted into a position that has me doing a lot more self-directed project type stuff and I get catatonically anxious whenever I even think about properly starting any of the goals I have to finish by July.I have problems starting up, too, and my current gig is like yours. So I make myself.I use the Pomodoro Technique to help me focus. You do one task for 25 minutes -- no email, no social media, just the one task -- and then take a 5 minute break.I use a website called My Tomatoes http://mytomatoes.com/ to keep track of what I worked on.

I think I've linked to it on this thread before at some point, but I don't think I provided many details beyond maybe a one sentence description. I find a large portion of Reddit to be garbage, but their Stop Drinking sub was an incredibly helpful resource for me, especially early on. I was very hesitant to go to meetings at first due to anxiety and stuff, but this was an awesome way to connect with other folks in the same boat. The community there is incredibly supportive and has grown exponentially in years past. It definitely got me through some rough times. On the sidebar, there's a link to where you can "request a badge" that tracks your sobriety day count. I know it sounds like nothing special, but watching that number go up was a cool little occasion I'd look forward to each night. I still use it as my primary reference to see how much time I have under my belt.

a good friend just fell off the wagon after over 8 years. i'm pretty concerned. i've been honest with him that it's not going to go well, while also letting him know i was open to him.there are some drugs involved as well. he's been going on the dark web. this is a complicated situation.

bumble wrote:This Naked Mind for a summary.(this'll be too long. i know b/c i already wrote it. sorry in advance.)I just read that book. I have a family member who is in need and deeply skeptical of AA, so I figured it was worth a shot.Liked some things about it. The focus on alcohol. The (true!) notion that you don't have to hit rock bottom. Some people can drop it like a rock, often once they have sufficient knowledge of how alcohol works. How addictive it can be. How incrementally damaging and insidious it is. How easy it is for it to fuck up your life before you pick up on what is happening. How invasively it is pushed on literally everyone in Western culture at every waking moment.This book provides much of that baseline info. Most of the data and science in the book is presented in a useful way, to people who don't know any of it yet, especially. Alcohol's effect on the brain, in particular--just fucked up and underrecognized. But there are some really key mistakes/oversights. She gives short shrift to genetic predisposition to alcoholism--well-established as a real thing at this point. I would suggest Beyond the Influence as a much better source on that front (better book in general). And she falsely claims (twice) that teen drinking is on the rise, that it's never been more prevalent. Just not true at all. It's been on a steep decline since the early 80s.And the book glides over the tremendous difficulty some people have getting and staying sober. If you've hit it even moderately hard for any kind of while, it might be months before you are at physical or mental equilibrium. Odds are that recovery time will be rocky. Often not something you can read about in a book and understand. Better than having continued a drinking life, but it may not feel like it a lot of the time--and an alcohol-addled brain encourages anyone in recovery to question the wisdom of having stopped, often long after the initial drying-out.To advocate making that trek w/o organized support...I just have a problem with it, when it's put forth as if it's The Answer. I think it's a bit pat.That said, I know the basic method outlined in the book works for some people. It's essentially what worked for me. But I had sixteen years of living with an alcoholic, watching him get sober, and going to AA meetings with him, before I even started drinking in earnest. Anyway, maybe This Naked Mind is about 25% problems and the rest is pretty good. Better than most "here's the new special way we figured out to quit drinking" things. Good enough to send to someone who thinks 12-step is bullshit and hope she reads it. Whatever gets a person quit when they need to quit is all right.

Wishing resolve for those of you who find the holiday season a testing time. Keep on keepin' on (the wagon).