You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 160.

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.

Well, hello everybody.

We are talking about what happens when you want to take a break from drinking

and you are met with friends and family or other people in your life who say,

really, you don't have a problem.

You don't need to do that.

It's something that I have seen come up for more and more of my clients

and I'll tell you, it's something that came up also in my own life

and it can be a pretty painful place to be in.

I'm really familiar with what it is like to have people question your decision

to take a break and think that you don't need to.

You don't have a problem and it's not that you have a problem.

That's not what you need to convince other people of.

In fact, you don't need to convince them of anything,

but it is really important to understand why it is it feels so unsettling

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