You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 178.

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.

So the past couple episodes, I've been doing a deep dive into my work

and what sets it apart and how to know if it's right for you

and what really makes it different from everything else that's out there

that talks about why people drink and why people drink more than they want

and how to go about changing that.

So today, what I want to do is actually talk to you about what you're going

to discover when you start doing the work to understand the habit

and respond really differently to the desire and the deprivation that you feel.

And the reason why I wanted to do this is because so often I think when you feel

kind of stuck and you don't know how to move forward and you're thinking

about changing your drinking and changing your relationship with alcohol,

you're not kind of able yet to envision what the future is going to look like.

And when you envision a future and what it's going to look like,

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