You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 115.

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.

Hello, everybody. Now listen, I'm doing something a little different today.

What I am going to do is a listener, Q and A.

I'm going to start answering your questions on the podcast.

You know, I started the Take a Break podcast in 2017 and right from the get-go,

I just started getting so many questions from all of you.

And I realized that the best way to answer these questions is to do it on the podcast

so that you can all get the benefit of hearing what I have to say.

If you have questions about anything that I talk about, anything about the habit,

how to change your desire, questions that you have, about how to be successful,

whatever it is, all you have to do is send an email to podcastatratialheart.com

and I will make sure that you get an answer.

So for our very first segment, I chose this question because I think that it encompasses

so many of the aspects of the work that I teach and I talk about when it comes to

changing your drinking. And the question was really simple.

Someone wrote in and said, I've heard so many people say that once they surrendered,

it was so much easier to walk away from alcohol. I'd be really interested in your thoughts

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