You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 213.

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.

All right, so welcome everyone. I'm so excited because we're actually going to do something

a little different today. A couple of weeks ago, my team got an email from a woman named

Molly who had completed the 30-day challenge and wanted to share her experience.

And I will tell you, we get emails from people who complete the challenge all the time,

but this one really was different. It really stood out and I want to read a little bit

of what she wrote to us. So she said, I took your 30-day challenge and it changed my relationship

with wine after two decades of struggling with over drinking.

Now, this was really miraculous because I am also a certified sommelier and I spent a long

time pursuing a love affair with wine. Your program helped me step by step change the habit,

especially the part about creating new types of pleasure. When I tell other people about it,

they are amazed that a certified sommelier could accomplish this.

So I will tell you, I read this email and I thought, we got to talk to Molly because, you know,

I hear from so many people and I remember myself thinking for a very long time,

it's going to be impossible to change the habit of drinking. It's going to be impossible to change my relationship with alcohol.

But I do hear in particular from people who say, I really can't do it because I'm a chef

or I work in the restaurant industry or I own a winery or I write about wine for a living.

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