You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 206.

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 my friends. Let's get started with a question today.

Do you love your company? Do you love spending time with yourself?

You should, I hope you do. You should love being alone with you and your thoughts because you're amazing.

There's no one else like you. But listen, if this sounds like a tall order, I really understand.

It used to be a very tall order for me. I didn't want to be alone with my thoughts. I didn't really enjoy spending time with myself.

I didn't really like a lot of things about myself.

And my thoughts were constantly telling me what I was doing wrong and how I was falling behind.

So I wanted to fill up the time that I had with myself, with stuff and things and people and activities and food and of course alcohol and drinking, the more the better.

I was talking about this recently with people that are doing the 30 day challenge.

And one woman was talking about how much she was dreading this winter.

So it's dark at 4.30 and it's going to be long and it's going to be cold and we're in the midst of a pandemic and she was isolated from friends and family and neighbors.

And her question to me was Rachel, how on earth am I going to get through this winter without wine?

And so I told her, listen, the only reason we don't like being alone with ourselves is if we don't like the content of our thoughts.

That's it.

Alone being alone just is.

It's not a problem. The problem is where your mind goes.

And for a long time, before I had this work before I understood the thing feel like cycle before I knew anything about managing my mind, I went to a lot of unfun places.

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