125: Listener Q&A: How to Handle Drinking & Insomnia
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about how alcohol affects your sleep, two of the common instances where I see people drinking to fall asleep, and why it's actually totally normal to be unable to sleep sometimes. I also dive into the thoughts and emotions that often accompany insomnia and why your thoughts about sleep are probably compounding your physical tiredness.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 125 |
| 0:06.6 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out |
| 0:13.3 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation |
| 0:19.9 | No labels no judgment just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking |
| 0:27.8 | Now here's your host Rachel Hart |
| 0:35.3 | Hello everybody we are gonna do a listener Q and A today |
| 0:40.9 | That's where you send me in your questions and I answer them on the podcast if you have a question for me |
| 0:47.2 | You can always send an email to podcast at Rachel Hart dot com |
| 0:53.0 | Today's question is this do you have any advice on |
| 0:58.4 | Sleeping without having several drinks. I have trouble falling asleep this in turn |
| 1:03.8 | Weekends my resolve not to drink |
| 1:06.7 | You know, I thought this was the perfect question to answer today because I actually woke up at |
| 1:13.6 | 255 in the morning and I stayed awake until I headed to the gym at 5.30 |
| 1:21.6 | Now listen, I have talked on this podcast before that in the past |
| 1:28.4 | Sometimes my problem was actually sleeping too much sometimes I |
| 1:34.3 | Found myself using sleep as a way to escape my life too much pain too many problems |
| 1:41.1 | I just wanted to go unconscious |
| 1:44.1 | Now if you are someone out there that is struggling with falling asleep this may sound amazing |
| 1:50.1 | But over sleeping sleeping too much is a form of numbing |
| 1:55.1 | It is a form of trying to escape how you feel and |
| 1:59.1 | The problem is that when you wake up all your problems are still there |
| 2:04.0 | You can never sleep enough to change your life you have to be awake and conscious if you want to start changing your life |
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