You're listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo episode number 197.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems,

and real coaching. And now your host, Master Coach Instructor Brook Castillo.

Well hello my friends. Today I have recorded a podcast for you on urges.

And the reason I'm recording this podcast is because so many of my students give into confusion

when it comes to urges and managing urges. And so I want this to be a resource for you to be able

to come back to to understand what's going on when you experience an urge. Here's the thing I want

to tell you. Everything that you do as it applies to buffering, which for some of you is overeating,

over drinking, OCD behaviors, looking at your phone too much, checking your email too much,

any obsessive cleaning, anything like that that you're struggling with. I want you to know

is easy to stop doing. You just stop doing it. You don't respond to the urge.

This is not difficult. What's difficult is the feeling that you will have and be left with

if you don't follow through on an urge. So I want you to think about the model. A thought is going

to cause the urge. So you may have a thought I need to clean that. I need to eat that. I want to drink.

I want to taste that. I want to smoke that. I want to see who called me. I want to see if anyone

liked my photo. All of those thoughts cause that urge to pick up the phone, pick up the food. Do

whatever it is that you are complying with that urge. Again, not doing the thing is easy. So not

picking up the phone, not picking up the cookie. That's all easy, you guys. That is not the hard part.

Right? It's not hard to put the fork down. It's not hard to not pick up the food. What's difficult

is dealing with the emotion, dealing with the urge when you don't comply. And here's what I want

to say about that is that urges demand action. They demand it. But an urge has no authority.

So it's kind of like if I say to you, pick that up, pick that up, pick that up, pick it up right now.

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