You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 116.

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.

All right everybody, we are talking about dares today. This is one of my all-time

favorite topics and I'll tell you, had you met me? Oh, I don't know, 10 years ago?

You would not have thought to yourself, oh, that woman Rachel, she really loves to dare

herself. You would have thought the exact opposite. I hated daring myself. I wanted

to avoid being uncomfortable at all costs and in fact I did that for a really long

time. But you know what? It got me nowhere because daring yourself, moving

towards discomfort, teaching your brain that you can handle whatever comes your

way is how I learned how to change the habit of drinking and how you will learn to

change the habit of drinking. You cannot just do it by sitting in your chair right

now and listening to a podcast. You have to be willing to dare yourself. And

this is one of the areas where I see a lot of people get stuck when they learn

about the think-field act cycle. So they learn this framework about why they

feel the way they do, why they are drinking, why they're saying yes to a drink.

They start to understand, oh my gosh, my feelings and my actions aren't just

these mysterious things that come out of the clear blue sky. They are connected

to what is running through my brain. They are connected to my thoughts, all the

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