You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 211.

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. Welcome back to another episode.

We are talking today about the difference between knowledge and know-how.

I see so many of my clients in the 30-day challenge and even beyond some of those that continue on with the advanced work get really tripped up

by the difference between knowledge and know-how.

And when you're trying to change the habit of drinking, but really when you're trying to change any habit, you must understand the difference.

I say over and over and over again on the podcast.

No one ever taught you about your brain.

No one ever sat you down and said, hey, here's how your brain works and how habits are formed and how to change these habits and how alcohol interacts with your brain

and with the habit cycle.

No one teaches us this. I think it's something that we should all learn in school, but it doesn't happen.

No one teaches us about the think-feel-act cycle.

This idea that your actions, the decision to pick up a drink doesn't just happen.

It's driven by how you feel.

So when you feel desire, you say yes.

When you feel entitled, you reach for that drink. When you feel anxious, you might find yourself heading to the bar.

And you will respond to these feelings in an automatic manner by reaching for a drink unless you learn how to intervene, which requires learning what your actions are connected to.

They're connected to your thoughts and your feelings.

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