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We don't have to hit rock bottom, we're allowed to want something different and we can CHOOSE to improve our lives from this point onwards.
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Hello, darling heart, and welcome to the Drink Less, Live Better podcast.
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This is the podcast that helps you to see that drinking less doesn't need to be stressful, lonely, or boring.
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I'm your host, Sarah Williamson, and I decided to have a year alcohol free as a little life experiment and haven't looked back.
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With my experience and training, I now help other people with their alcohol free or drink less adventures.
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You can find out more and sign up to my 5 day drink less challenge at drink less, live better.com.
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I'm here to tell you that you can relax, connect, and have fun without alcohol in your life.
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Join me here each week to find out how.
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Now after the last 2 weeks episodes, 1 on being unbusy and 1 on full disclosure, recognizing my total humanness and my total
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busyness, I am now delighted to let you know that rest club is up and running.
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If you want details of rest club and how to join me for an hour of calm of peace, please take a look in the show notes. Now, today, comfort zones.
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There is light and shade in the comfort zone, elements to bring growth, elements that maybe bring a bit of pain.
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You won't ever hear me talking about stepping out of a comfort comfort zone. No, thank you.
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I'm the girl you will hear talking about gently pushing the edges of our comfort zones. Look.
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If leaping out of a comfort zone brings you massive joy, you thrive on it and work best that way. Please carry on.
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I'll be cheering you, championing you, and offering to hold your coat whilst you go out, get on, and do whatever deeply uncomfortable
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thing it is that you want to do that helps you to thrive, but just know that's never going to be me.
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When I first decided I was going to drink less, the edging of my comfort zone looked like thinking about it.
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I thought about it a lot for a long time, years, in fact, before I could even talk about it.
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This was me nudging the sides of what felt comfortable.
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I no more wanted to be sober than I want to skydive, bungee jump, or even step off the side of the curb sometimes.
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Once I'd thought about and then started to talk about drinking less, I felt safe to take some action.
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I was able to nudge that comfort zone again by cutting down, moderating, reducing my harmful drinking, and then a new normal existed.
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My zone of comfort had grown, and it had happened over time, and it didn't even hurt.
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When I was eventually ready to try my year long experiment and go alcohol free, it didn't feel like such a huge leap.
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It felt planned, prepared and possibly even achievable.
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The ways my professional comfort zone have been expanded in 2023 include many, many public speaking events at well-being days
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and festivals, writing articles for huge publications, being filmed for a new promo video for a charity, writing a best selling
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book, and training as a coaching supervisor.
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My personal comfort zone has been pushed further than I would have chosen for myself.
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The loss of my beautiful dog, cancer, teenager exams and college transitions, family illnesses, and accidents.
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It is all part of life being a bit lifey.
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So if your comfort zone feels safe, secure, and stable, and you like it there, stay.
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Don't let anyone tell you growth and good things only happen outside your comfort zone. That is simply not true.
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If you fancy tiptoeing to the edge of your comfort zone and nudging the edges, do that.
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And if your comfort zone is so tiny, you spend your life outside the edge doing those crazy things, then good for you.
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Check out the show notes on this podcast episode or any other.
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You'll find the details of how to join rest club.
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You'll see the link to a hidden podcast episode to help you with your 5 PM cravings, and you'll be able to read about my one to 1 coaching programme. Thank you for listening in today.
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Come back again next week, and PS, I believe in you.
