This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,

pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi friends, it's Annie Grace. I am coming to you from a road trip with my family,

so apologies for the background noise, but I wanted to answer this question from Sarah.

And this is an interesting one for me because I experienced this myself and so I did a lot of research

to get to the bottom of this one because I didn't have a good answer.

So Sarah asks, you said, I've become very aware that boredom is a trigger for me.

It generally shows up when I'm at home on the weekends, when we have nothing planned,

and I have time just to be with myself, my thoughts, my feelings, etc.

How home drinking, actually rather than social drinking, is my weakness,

and boredom it sounds like such an easy thing to overcome, but in reality it's so frustrating and difficult.

Do you have any recommendations?

And I have a lot of notes on this, so I'm going to be referring to my notes,

but I think in general how I like to approach things is rather than just giving you my recommendations

for overcoming my own boredom, which is definitely a struggle for me.

It's more about, okay, well let's actually look at what boredom is and what it does and what the source is,

and then enable ourselves to come up with kind of our own treatment for ourselves with more knowledge.

So I always think that knowledge is a really good way to tackle some of these big issues.

So I went deep into this one and I found some really interesting stuff.

And we've been bored as kind of a, for humans have been bored forever.

So the first evidence of boredom is back as early as like early Pompeii.

So it's not sort of a new thing, but it's a really uncomfortable feeling.

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