5. IT'S FUN

Adults have so few places to really let loose Where we can let our hair down and let it all hang out. Children have these outlets all the time They can sit and draw and paint for hours, they can escape into imaginary worlds and colors At the start your sketchbook might feel awkward as you take the first few steps of working in it. As you begin to string together more days a shift will begin to happen. Your sketchbook begins to feel a little bit more like a playground, where you can try out all those parts of yourself that you might have forgotten about. All those parts of yourself that you ’ ve hidden for so long Your sketchbook will become a place for imperfection, and we all could use a little more imperfection in our lives. Good ideas usually start from bad ideas and these bad ideas only get better when you spend time working on them, writing about them, painting about them

About Krysty

Krysty --AKA THE WOMAN WHO VIEWS SOBRIETY AS A RADICAL ACT OF SELFACCEPTANCE is a coach, educator, writer, mixed media creator, and the founder of Purple Dog Sober.

She founded the company during the pandemic when it became obvious how women were struggling with trying to balance home, work, and the schooling of their children. Along with this pressurized role women were expected to fill, came a rise in using alcohol as a coping mechanism, simply because that is what we ’ re taught to do The mission of her work is to provide women with a safe space where they can begin to explore their relationship with alcohol She does this using the framework of anchor pages, and the process of sketchbooking, which becomes an alternative coping mechanism that women can adapt to their daily lives and routines.

Her newest venture is Sober Wild, which is an outdoor adventure recovery space, based in NY. Krysty is a self-described book nerd (keeping a list of every book she’s read since the 7th grade); the proud momma of Molly and Henry, and is still searching for the perfect shade of red lipstick