198: I Can't Handle Not Knowing
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
2020 has been a year of people wanting to hit fast-forward on life, to the end of the pandemic, or to the end of this election season. You might be reaching for a drink - or eating or overworking - to handle how you're feeling but no matter the activity, they are all fueled by the same belief that you can't handle what's going on, and I'm showing you why this is a lie.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 198. |
| 0:06.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. |
| 0:13.0 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:19.0 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:27.0 | Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:35.0 | Well, hello everyone. We are talking today about how not to handle the stress of not knowing what is going to happen. |
| 0:46.0 | It is especially relevant today, but of course, this comes up in all areas of life. |
| 0:52.0 | Am I going to get the job? What are my test results going to say? Is my application going to be approved? |
| 0:58.0 | And of course, today, this episode is coming out on election day in the United States. |
| 1:05.0 | And so it's especially fitting because it's pretty likely that we are not going to have the results tonight. |
| 1:13.0 | We're going to have to wait for them. And unlike recent elections, there's a very good chance that we might have to wait for a while. |
| 1:21.0 | Which means more not knowing, more waiting. |
| 1:26.0 | Now listen, we had to wait a month in 2000 to find out who would be president. |
| 1:31.0 | People in the US have had to wait much longer before the presidential election of 1876 between Samuel J. Tilden and Rutherford B. Hayes was held on November 7th of that year. |
| 1:43.0 | And the final result was an issued into the following March. |
| 1:48.0 | So we've done this before. |
| 1:51.0 | But that doesn't change that right now there are a lot of people thinking, I just don't know if I can handle not knowing. |
| 1:58.0 | I hate not knowing what's going to happen today. How long am I going to have to wait? |
| 2:02.0 | That really is what I want to focus on in today's episode. Why does waiting feel so uncomfortable? |
| 2:08.0 | Why are we so often trying to escape it? |
| 2:11.0 | I can't tell you how many times I have heard people say in 2020, I just want to hit fast forward. |
| 2:16.0 | I just want to fast forward to the end of the pandemic. I just want to fast forward to the end of the selection season. |
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