You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 163.

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 everyone. We are talking about something today

that I know a lot of you have experienced or worry this might happen.

We're talking about what happens when people feel sorry for you because you're not drinking.

So it's all about pity on the podcast today.

Now I previously did a podcast episode on self-pity.

It's number 62.

If you want to go back and listen to that and that's all about what happens when you're feeling sorry

for yourself.

But this episode is about what happens when other people feel sorry for you.

And listen, this can happen around lots of things,

but it often crops up around the things that we choose either to put or not put into our bodies.

So mostly food and alcohol.

So it can happen when you're taking a break from drinking,

when you're on a diet, if you have certain food restrictions.

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