You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 171.

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. I want to tell you a little bit about

something that occurred to me as I was walking the other morning.

I think this is one of the best things about going for a morning walk is that

my brain just gets to think.

I'm not looking at my phone.

I'm not doing anything.

I'm just taking a morning stroll and it gets to kind of

connect pieces of a puzzle and put things together that it wouldn't otherwise.

And on this walk I was thinking about why alcohol is an acquired taste.

We've never really talked about it before on the podcast,

but I do talk about it a lot in the Take a Break program.

And I think understanding why it is that you acquire a taste for alcohol,

why you don't just immediately like it, I think that's really, really fascinating because so

often I talk to you guys about how alcohol creates a reward in the brain.

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