You are listening to the Take-A-Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 200.

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! It is my 200th episode. It's so wild! Seriously!

How is this my life? How did I do this? I really have this question a lot.

Right? It kind of blown away that this is the life that I'm living.

How did I change my relationship with alcohol? How did I write a book about it?

How do I have a podcast about it? How do I have a business all about this?

Not only that, but a business that supports my family. How on earth is this possible?

And then I remember, oh right, because I learned the thing, feel a cycle.

I learned the importance of my thoughts and what was happening in my mind

and how what I was thinking creates my feelings which leads to whatever I do

or don't do in the world, all of my actions, not just whether or not I pick up a drink,

but everything. But still, even still, I get a little blown away by it sometimes.

I will tell you, my mother, I love my mother, she is so excited for me.

My dad is so excited for me as well. They are, I think, also kind of blown away by what I've done,

but my mother always will say, you know Rachel, I remember when you wouldn't even call the local pizza place

to place an order. This is the thing that she always comes back to.

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