159: Drinking + Awkwardness
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Join me this week as I show you what awkwardness is and how it's created, why you are trying so hard to avoid this feeling, and how you can start to change your relationship with it. Erasing this emotion from your human experience isn't going to happen, so instead, you can discover how to embrace it, find comfort in it, and see how it can lead to your growth.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 159. |
| 0:06.6 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:11.7 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:16.9 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take |
| 0:23.9 | control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now, here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:30.2 | Hey guys, we are talking about awkwardness today. I'm going to tell you this is one of those |
| 0:44.8 | emotions that I personally have had to do a lot of work around, not just connected to the habit |
| 0:53.9 | that I developed around drinking, but also connected to being a business owner and being a coach |
| 0:59.9 | and showing up in the world and having a podcast and promoting a book and all of the things where I |
| 1:06.3 | show up and be vulnerable. I've had to do a lot of work around changing my relationship with |
| 1:12.0 | awkwardness and that's what I want to help you guys do today as well because you know what, |
| 1:17.1 | it stands in the way. It's such an obstacle for so many of you out there and an obstacle |
| 1:24.0 | in a huge way because it prevents you from putting yourself out there. It prevents you from |
| 1:31.2 | showing up big in the world. So instead, what do you do? We play small and I want to help you |
| 1:37.2 | not only understand how awkwardness can be connected to the habit of drinking and |
| 1:42.4 | PS connected to so many other habits as well, but how it really is something that unless you do |
| 1:50.0 | the work around, it is going to prevent you from really tapping into your full potential. |
| 1:57.6 | So I'll tell you, I was doing research for this episode and every time I typed awkward into Google, |
| 2:04.8 | I spelled it incorrectly, every time and I love that even the word awkward is somehow a little |
| 2:12.4 | awkward to spell. You know, awkwardness really is just that sense of not feeling at ease with |
| 2:22.4 | yourself or at ease with what is happening around you. And it is very, very connected to so many |
| 2:31.1 | habits. Now, people develop habits around drinking for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes it's about |
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