You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 145.

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 is your host, Rachel Hart.

Hey guys, so listen, today's episode is going to be really simple, but not necessarily so easy for your brain to wrap your mind around.

Because I'm going to be talking about the three reasons why you drink too much.

And the reason why it is not simple to understand what I'm going to be talking about today, the reason why it's going to take your brain a second to catch up with what I'm saying, is because all three of these reasons have nothing to do with why you currently think that you are drinking too much.

All of the reasons that you currently have that your brain is currently telling you for why it is you have this habit are totally wrong.

So even though what I'm going to talk to you about today is really simple, it is asking you to let go of these beliefs that you have had that you have used to try to explain why it is that you have this habit with alcohol that is not serving you.

I'm going to tell you this, the reason why I am able to understand this is because I also had a lot of nonsense in my brain about why it was that I had this habit around drinking and why it was that I drank too much.

It was not because I was weak willed or lacking discipline and you aren't either that's not the problem for you.

It was not because I had an addictive personality which is something that I had told myself for so long when in reality there is no such thing.

It is not because of my family background, it's not because of your family background and it's not because there is something wrong with you or wrong with your brain.

I used to tell myself this all the time, I think I just lost the brain lottery but that's not what happened.

All of these reasons, telling yourself that you like discipline, telling yourself you have an addictive personality or that you are predisposed because of your family background or that you just have something wrong with your brain.

None of them are true and when you believe these reasons, even if they feel true for you right now, even if you want to say Rachel you don't know me, I have a lot of evidence.

I'm going to tell you this, when you understand how the thing feel like cycle works, you're going to see that all of these reasons that you're telling yourself right now are just going to make you feel shame and guilt and defeated and hopeless and they will not get you where you want to go.

I'm going to talk to you today beyond just that, we're not even going to be talking just why believing these reasons is going to keep you stuck.

I'm actually going to talk to you today about how it is that they're just not true.

Okay, so let's talk about the three reasons why you have a habit around drinking and why you are drinking too much.

The first is really simple, you don't yet know how to allow the urge to drink to be there and to not answer it or you sometimes know how to allow it and sometimes don't or you think you know how to allow it but actually you're using willpower but quite simply right now.

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