Boredom is a common feeling in early recovery especially; many new members here on Talking Sober have shared about it.
As addicts we have a pattern of behaviour and our addiction is at the centre of it. We treat it like a profession: we invest money and time in our addiction, we have stories from our addiction, we feel the pull to go to it (just like that pull to get to a hobby or a passion). It always ends in the ditch but we repeat the cycle endlessly.
When we go dry-but-not-in-recovery, we aren’t physically doing our addiction but the patterns are still there. It’s like a waterfall where we build a dam to try to hold back the water (above the waterfall), then the waterfall looks boring. It’s dead and lifeless, no water flowing.
The problem with just building a dam, without doing more to reshape and redirect the water flow, is that the water level behind the dam just keeps building up and building up until BAM! the dam breaks, and we relapse hard.
To redirect the water flow, we need to learn new habits and new ways of thinking and behaving. We have to practice them until they become familiar. Gradually we discover healthy interests and healthy lifestyles, and we are no longer bored. It takes time and effort with other people in recovery, and it takes an open mind and a willingness to listen, learn, and change daily behaviours, but it is possible.
Personally I found the readings and groups here helpful: Resources for our recovery
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