You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 214.

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.

Welcome everyone. So we are going to be talking about grief today and we're going to be

exploring why it is so many people use alcohol and also food as a way to try to cope with a

grief that they feel. So what I want to do today is really walk you through an exercise that will

help you to start to feel like you're in charge rather than this big overwhelming emotion is

running the show. And I will say that this exercise can be used for way more than just grief.

Really any emotion that feels big or daunting or overwhelming, you can use this exercise for.

So on a personal note, I'm talking about grief today because I'm currently grieving.

I had a miscarriage last week and it still feels really raw. I still wake up and open my eyes in

the morning and realize that I'm not pregnant and it just hurts. And I thought a lot about whether

or not I wanted to talk about this on the podcast because this podcast is not about the trials and

tribulations of my life. It's about helping you figure out how to change your relationship with

alcohol and how to change the habit. But I also know that grief is a reason that so many people

turn to drinking and grief is a reason that so many people develop a habit around alcohol or find

themselves having a habit that starts to accelerate how much they're drinking and how often they're

drinking. And so I really hope that by showing you how I have been working to deal with my own

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