You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 110.

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.

Hey everybody, now listen before I get started today.

I'm doing a new segment where I'm going to answer your questions.

So if you have any questions at all, anything about the topic of drinking, anything you hear me talk about on the podcast,

anything you're struggling with, just send me your questions at podcast at Rachel Hart.com.

All right, so let's dive into today's topic.

Now last week, we were talking about learning and how learning can actually be a trap.

It is so mind blowing to understand that this is possible.

If you haven't listened to that episode, episode 109, I want to make sure you go back and check it out.

The reason why learning can be a trap is because you're not taking action.

It feels so virtuous. You just keep learning and learning and learning.

But you're not actually going out there and doing anything different because you tell yourself,

oh, I just need a little bit more information before I figure this out.

So here's the thing. I want to talk about what happens when you start taking action.

So you get out of that learning trap. You start taking action.

But then the action you take does not go as you hoped it would.

Okay, so let's say you committed to taking a break.

Maybe it was for a day or a week or a month or a year, whatever it was, you committed to taking a break.

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