You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 150.

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. Listen, my grandmother turned 97.

97? It's so crazy to me. I love her so much. I cannot wait to see her.

I'm going to be in Connecticut for Christmas and I will see her.

She will see my little boy. I cannot wait.

But also 97. I hope that I have 97 years in me.

It just seems amazing. Anyway, grandma, I love you so, so much.

So last week, I was talking all about the cycle of binging and restricting.

I think that this is so important for you guys to really understand.

And I want to actually do a second episode kind of diving deeper into this because

you will stay stuck in this cycle unless you start to understand that you are the cause of your

desire and you are the cause of your deprivation. This can be a really hard thing to wrap your

brain around. And it was a really hard thing for me to wrap my brain around until I started

learning about the think-fuel act cycle and how my desire and my deprivation was created

by my thinking. But I want to kind of go deeper today into the concept of the forbidden fruit.

This is a concept that has been with humanity for a really long time. Why is it that we desire

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