You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 104.

Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.

We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.

No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.

Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.

Well, hello everybody.

So today I'm going to do something a little different and I'm going to share a story that I got from one of my listeners.

Now a lot of you guys email me, you email in questions, you email in topics you'd love to hear me talk about.

But a lot of you also share the amazing, amazing progress and changes that you have created for yourself in your life.

And I love hearing about all of it.

So here's what one of my listeners wrote.

There are so many times when taking a break from drinking reminds me of coming out as gay.

I know deep down giving up alcohol is what I am meant to do, but taking action holds so much uncertainty for my future self.

Before I came out, I was so scared of becoming everything I thought a gay person was.

All the negative labels associated with being gay would be stuck to me for all the world to see.

I can vividly remember talking with my friend while I was just coming to terms with who I was.

And he responded, oh, I don't wish that.

Being gay is amazing.

And hearing him say that sent my brain into chaos because I couldn't imagine anyone actually wanting to be gay.

I thought he was lying.

Of course, everyone wants to be straight. Everyone wants to be normal.

It's just like when you say life without alcohol is amazing.

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