113: Boredom
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
I discuss boredom, what's "wrong" with it, and what it has to offer us. Boredom provides a window into our minds, which is precisely why it's so beneficial yet so terrifying. I'll ask you to examine why you think it's such a problem to be bored and whether you like to be alone with your own mind. And I'll also share some of the benefits of boredom that come along once you get through the initial discomfort of being left alone with your own thoughts.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 113. |
| 0:07.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. |
| 0:14.0 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:20.0 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:28.0 | Now here is your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:36.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody. I am so excited to talk to you today about boredom. |
| 0:43.0 | Maybe you're listening to this podcast because you don't want to be bored, but this is going to be the perfect topic for you. |
| 0:53.0 | Now, I hear about boredom from my clients a lot. |
| 0:58.0 | So they take a break from drinking, maybe they even just start drinking less. |
| 1:02.0 | And they come back to me and they say, Rachel, well now what? I'm bored. |
| 1:07.0 | What am I supposed to do with all this time? I hate being bored. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm sitting around in the evening with nothing to do. |
| 1:15.0 | I don't want to feel this way. I want to feel better, not worse. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm bored by my friends or I'm bored by the people that I'm hanging out with or I'm bored by my husband or I'm bored with everything. |
| 1:26.0 | And it feels like such a choice, right? |
| 1:31.0 | The choice really is so I can stay bored, which nobody wants, or I can go back to entertaining myself with drinking. |
| 1:42.0 | So what are you going to do? And I'm going to tell you because it took me a very long time to figure this out as someone who spent many and evening by myself. |
| 1:54.0 | Thinking, God, this is just so dull. I wish I had something to drink. |
| 2:00.0 | I'm going to tell you, you have to change your relationship with boredom if you want to change the habit of drinking pure and simple. |
| 2:11.0 | And so that's what we're going to be talking about on today's episode. What is boredom? Why is it a problem? |
| 2:17.0 | What's the upside of being bored? Because surprise, there is an upside, which most people have no idea about. |
| 2:24.0 | And how can you prevent boredom from being a problem and standing in the way of success when it comes to changing the habit of drinking? |
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