What Do You Do for Fun When You Stop Drinking With Amy Tangerine

About this episode

The episode discusses how creativity can serve as a tool for sobriety and self-care, helping women redefine fun and rebuild their identities after alcohol.

Creativity isn’t just a hobby—it can be a sobriety tool, a self-care practice, and a way back to the parts of ourselves we forgot. In this episode of Sisters in Sobriety, Sonia and Kathleen explore how play, journaling, memory keeping, and hands-on creativity can help women rebuild identity and joy after alcohol. Sonia is joined by Amy Tangerine, a designer, author, creative director, memory keeper, and founder of a colorful creative brand that has inspired hundreds of thousands of people to reconnect with imagination, craft, and permission to play. The conversation opens up the question of what happens when drinking used to be the “play hard” part of life—and what it means to redefine fun in sobriety. Sonia and Amy talk about childhood creativity, cozy hobbies, scrapbooking, junk journaling, reading, Legos, collecting, and why many adults dismiss the very activities that once made them feel alive. They also explore how high-achieving women can struggle to do something without measuring it, monetizing it, or turning it into another task. Amy shares how creative flow can become a grounding practice, especially for people who feel anxious, overworked, disconnected, or unsure of who…

People in this episode

Hosts: Sonia Kahlon, Kathleen Killen

Guest: Amy Tangerine

Topics covered

• creativity
• sobriety
• self-care
• identity
• play
• memory keeping
• high-achieving women

Keywords

• creativity
• sobriety
• self-care
• memory keeping
• journaling
• high-achieving women
• play
• analog journaling
• inner child work

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sisters in Sobriety

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