You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 197.

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, hello, hello everyone.

We are talking about desire confusion today.

I love this topic. It's so important and it will 100% help you.

And in fact, it's really essential if you want to change the habit of drinking and change your relationship with alcohol.

And I'm going to tell you, I started thinking about the topic of desire confusion because my husband and I are currently watching Deaf You on Netflix.

Actually, we just finished it the other night.

I immediately became obsessed with this show.

If you're not familiar with it, it follows college kids at a place called Gullude at University in DC.

And the university is four people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.

And I will say that I just totally fell in love with the show from the very first episode, partly because I got very wrapped up in the lives of the characters, but also because it really was the first time that I ever saw people who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing presented on TV as multi-dimensional people.

They weren't tokenized or presented as the Deaf friend or the Deaf sidekick where the focus was about how they were different from quote unquote regular people.

On Deaf You, these are just college kids trying to navigate college life.

They're trying to figure out how to become young adults and all of the complications that come with that.

And they just happen to communicate using American Sign Language.

And I think that shift is so powerful.

You know, so often we deny people who we perceive as having a disability, we deny them their full humaneness.

And we don't do this on purpose.

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