203: Allowing Urges
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Listen in this week as I show you the wealth of information that urges can provide when you're willing to examine them, and how doing this work will help you manage urges in every single area of your life. You'll find that doing this work saves you time and energy in the long run, and it will reveal patterns of the habit that you may not yet be conscious of.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 203. |
| 0:06.1 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:11.2 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:16.4 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take |
| 0:23.4 | control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host Rachel Hart. |
| 0:34.6 | Well hello my friends, we are talking about allowing urges today. This is a favorite topic of mine |
| 0:42.9 | on the podcast talking about urges and we will never stop talking about urges because there is |
| 0:48.4 | so much for you to learn. Really getting curious about your urges is how you start to shift the habit. |
| 0:57.8 | They have so much information for you. Most times you don't want to look, we don't want to pay |
| 1:03.5 | attention, we just want the urges to go away and you miss this opportunity to understand how is |
| 1:09.7 | the habit of drinking showing up in your unique situation. When it comes to allowing the urge to drink, |
| 1:20.8 | letting it be there without acting on it, what I want you to know is that this is a skill once |
| 1:26.9 | you master it, that you can apply to every area of your life. That's by doing this work is so |
| 1:33.1 | powerful. You're not just learning how to change the habit of drinking, you are learning how to |
| 1:39.3 | manage your mind, you're learning how to manage all of your urges and you know what, when you do |
| 1:44.8 | with this with alcohol, all of the other urges kind of pale in comparison. The urges you have to eat |
| 1:52.0 | or to spend or to procrastinate, they're a lot less of a big deal because those urges don't have |
| 2:00.3 | as strong a reward. They still have a reward associated with them but it's not as strong. So that's |
| 2:06.0 | why I think when you start this work with alcohol, it's like lifting heavy weights, it makes you so |
| 2:14.1 | strong. Now I've been talking about the pillars of habit change because when you sign up for a 30-day |
| 2:20.8 | challenge with me, these pillars are something that I walk you through, they're so essential, |
| 2:26.7 | they really are the key to changing your desire to drink in your relationship with alcohol because |
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