You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 129.

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, welcome back. This is a two-part podcast on drama.

Part one, episode 128, was all about what drama is why the human brain is predisposed to create it and how it affects your drinking.

And today on part two, what I want to show you is how to decrease it.

Because here's the thing, if you feel like you are constantly putting out fires, if you're constantly running around crazed,

and I know a lot of you out there can relate to this, I definitely could relate to this for a really long time.

And there is a lot of drama in your life.

Now, most of you think, yeah, I know.

Tell me about it. There's a lot going on, but that drama is being created from your mind.

It is being created by the think, feel, act, cycle, and not by what is happening in your life.

So that's what we're going to talk about today.

How do you start to decrease the drama in your life while your life stays the same?

It's not about changing things outside of you.

It's about changing the thoughts that are running through your mind.

Because I guarantee that the drama you are feeling during the day is connected to the need to feel better.

And the need to feel better is often what is fueling the habit of drinking.

When you don't understand how the think feel act cycle works,

when you don't understand how your thoughts are actually creating your feelings and driving,

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