You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 215.

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 back everyone.

We are talking about something that I call absent urges.

It's something I think that a lot of people don't even realize can exist and don't talk about.

But the fact of the matter is that when you take a break from drinking, sometimes people will have tons of urges.

It will feel like they have so many urges they don't know what to do with all the urges.

But sometimes people won't have any.

It will take a break from drinking and they will have zero urges to drink.

This is a real issue that some people experience.

And I'm going to tell you even if this isn't the case for you, even if not having any urges sounds like it would be amazing.

I really want you to listen to this podcast because what I'm going to talk to you about urges today and how urges work is going to be really, really useful for you to start to understand the habit.

Because you know what?

When I work with people who are in the situation where they have absent urges, they don't understand where their urges are that they were anticipating.

It can actually feel very disconcerting for them.

This is what I hear a lot. They'll say, oh my gosh, I was expecting this to be really hard.

But it feels so easy.

And I don't understand why it feels so easy to say no to a drink because if it's easy, then why has it been so hard for me to stop?

Why has it been so hard for me to change the habit?

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