Why does the wine start calling at 5pm—even when you promised yourself this morning you wouldn't drink tonight? In this episode, Colleen breaks down exactly what's happening in your nervous system when willpower fails, why high achievers are stuck in chronic stress mode, and how the shame spiral is actually making you drink more. Plus, three body-based tools you can use tonight to complete your stress cycle and finally give your body what it's actually asking for.

Key Takeaways:

• Your desire to drink at night isn't weakness. It's your nervous system asking for relief the only way it knows how.

• Your body doesn't speak English—she speaks energy, movement, rhythm, breath, and sensation.

• The habit that needs to break isn't how much you drink. It's the belief that you have to stay in constant motion.

• Expanding capacity isn't about doing less. It's about teaching your body how to hold more without living in survival mode.

• When you learn to give your body what it actually needs, the drink becomes optional—not because you're white-knuckling, but because you're not desperate anymore.

The Three Tools:

1. Shaking/Swaying — All animals shake off stress. Release the energy that got stuck in your muscles.

2. The Voo Exercise — Deep breath in, then "vooooo" until all the air is out. Stimulates your vagus nerve.

3. Bilateral Stimulation — Left-right rhythmic movement (walking, tapping shoulders, tapping thighs) tells your nervous system you're not frozen.

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