167: Emotional Fluency
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Join me this week as I walk you through how to start creating emotional fluency for yourself, and how this is going to help you figure out a new way to respond and relate to your emotions. Through this work, you'll feel more empowered over your emotions and find different ways to examine your think-feel-act cycles.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 167. |
| 0:06.4 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:11.4 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:16.6 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take |
| 0:23.6 | control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now, here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, hello, everyone. Today, I'm talking about something that I call emotional fluency. And I'm |
| 0:41.7 | going to tell you, this skill is important, no matter what is happening in your life, but it is |
| 0:48.2 | doubly important when you have a lot of negative emotion, which is what many of you are experiencing |
| 0:55.6 | right now when you think about the coronavirus. So this skill is going to be really important for you |
| 1:04.2 | to practice and to master. I'm going to start to show you how to do that today. Now, when I'm working |
| 1:11.0 | with women in the Take a Break program, in their first 30 days, they learn two really important |
| 1:16.9 | tools. One is how to allow the urge to drink and not say yes to it and not use willpower and not |
| 1:23.2 | try to fight it, but just allow it to be there. And the other is really the practicalities of taking |
| 1:29.4 | what they hear me talk about on the podcast, the think feel cycle and how to start to really learn |
| 1:35.4 | how to coach themselves with that model. These two skills are really the foundation for changing the |
| 1:44.8 | habit. Now, many women actually extend their stay and continue working with me past their 30 days. |
| 1:51.9 | And in their first advanced class that they get, what I teach them is the skill about emotional |
| 1:59.6 | fluency, because that's how important it is, not only to changing your relationship with your |
| 2:05.6 | emotions, but to really change the habit that you have with any kind of numbing activity, because |
| 2:12.2 | what I don't ever want to see is that someone takes a break from drinking and then they just start |
| 2:17.6 | eating a bunch. So often that flip-flop happens when you don't have the skill of emotional fluency. |
| 2:24.2 | Because when you have a lot of negative emotion, you need to figure out how to peacefully coexist |
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