You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 179.

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 going to do a deep dive into three very important thoughts today

that I believe are huge barriers when it comes to changing your relationship with alcohol

and also hugely misunderstood.

So these three thoughts are I can stop whenever I want to, I can quit anytime

and I don't have to have a drink.

Now before we go any further, let me just be really really clear with you.

I am not going to talk about these thoughts in the way that you might expect

because usually they are trotted out as examples of someone lying to themself.

That's not what we're talking about today.

So the logic goes that when someone says I can stop whenever I want to

that they're deluding themselves.

They're not actually in control and they can't actually quit whenever they want to, that's a lie.

So what we have been taught in a message certainly that I hear quite a bit

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