You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 191.

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 self-sabotage today.

It is something that so many of my clients struggled with.

It was something that I struggled with for a very, very long time.

And it's something that I want to make sure you don't have to struggle with because you don't need to.

So many people find that they start getting success around changing the habit of drinking.

And then even if they haven't sabotaged themselves, they start worrying that they might.

They look into their past. They look at their past history and think, oh god, what about all these other times when I was doing so well?

And then it all went down the drain.

So that's what I want to explore with you today.

What self-sabotage is, what's actually behind it and why you're probably mislabeling.

What is happening? That piece is so important.

Now, as I said, I was really a big believer that I was someone who just self-sabotaged myself all the time.

And I believed that I would do this in pretty much every aspect of my life.

So I would go for a while not drinking and I'd be feeling great.

And then I'd wake up one morning, totally hungover and think, why did I do that?

What's wrong with me? Or I'd go on a diet and I'd lose a bunch of weight.

And then suddenly I'd find that I had gained all the weight back and then some.

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