You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 120.

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, hello everybody. We are going to do another listener Q&A today.

So this is when I answer the questions that you have about taking a break, about drinking, about the think-fuelack cycle, any questions that you have.

You can send them into podcast at Rachel Hart.com.

So today I'm going to be answering a question about how to handle people's comments when you decide to take a break from drinking.

So here was the question that was sent in.

I've been having some circumstances where some supportive people in my life have been asking me questions about taking a break.

They're doing it because they're trying to be helpful. These are not strangers at a dinner party. It's my brother, my boyfriend, and my closest friends.

I've moved past the point where the questions make me feel uncomfortable or bad, but I'm a little awkward with responding to them.

I've tried using tools and just explaining, quote, I just don't want to.

Here are some of the things that people have said.

I feel really guilty drinking in front of you.

Does this mean we're never going to wine country again?

The only experience I have with alcoholism is my stepmother.

I don't trust people who don't drink.

I don't think it would be very natural for me to launch right into my drinking as a neutral circumstance until you have a thought about it.

I've tried to start explaining the think-fuelack cycle, but that's a big concept to really wrap your brain around.

Oh my god, I love this question so much. I also love your use of circumstance.

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