You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 123.

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 my friends. So here's the thing.

I was on a coaching call with a client recently and this is what she said, which I love so much that I had to share it with you guys.

She said, I am so glad that I struggled with my drinking so that I could learn this,

so that I could learn about my mind and how it works and the think feel a cycle and that there are circumstances in the world and that my thoughts about them are optional.

I can choose what I want to think about them.

Seriously, can you imagine this if you are in the place right now where you are struggling with your drinking?

Can you imagine being glad to have had this struggle?

Can you imagine being grateful that you drink more than you want?

I will tell you for the longest time I couldn't.

I thought that the habit of drinking and the habit of over drinking that I had was the worst part of me.

It was a sign that I was surely broken.

It was a sign that something was really wrong and it was a cause of so many problems in my life.

But you know what?

Now I can totally relate with what this client said because I actually do think about this all the time.

I do think about how having this be my struggle, having this be something that I had to figure out.

It was the path that got me here, got me to the life that I have now, which frankly is really amazing.

Learning about desire and how to manage it, learning about urges and how to allow them,

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