You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 216.

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.

We're talking about the brain today, which I talk about a lot on the podcast, but this episode is

going to have a little bit of a different focus. So of course, the habit of drinking was created

by the brain and that habit resides in your unconscious brain.

So if you want to change your drinking, you have to understand how your brain works,

which is why I spend so much time discussing this topic, why I talk about the habit cycle and

how the brain seeks out rewards and how your thoughts create your desire and the difference between

your lower brain and your higher brain. All of this of how the brain works, it matters a ton.

But today, I want to kind of step beyond the mechanics and really show you another aspect

that you have to pay attention to if you want to change the habit. And that is the relationship

that you have with your brain, which listen, I know that sounds a little weird.

I know thinking about, I have a relationship with my brain, we don't think about that.

Normal people don't walk around thinking about being in relationship with their brain,

but you are, even if you don't know it. And if your relationship with your brain stinks,

it's going to be very hard to change the habit of drinking. Because you need your brain on your side

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