217: Regret About Drinking
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Tune in today to find out why your brain is so committed to regretting past drinking behaviors and how this pattern of thinking is preventing you from moving forward with your break. You will learn how to stop beating yourself, and instead, how to make decisions around alcohol you will be proud of.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 217. |
| 0:06.1 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:11.2 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:16.4 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take |
| 0:23.4 | control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:34.5 | Well hello everyone, welcome back. We're talking today about regret. Specifically, |
| 0:42.0 | things that you regret that you did when you were drinking, things that you did or said or how |
| 0:47.2 | you behaved because I watch so many people get stuck in this area. I watch so many people |
| 0:54.5 | who I'm working with and they start making really remarkable progress and that might mean they've |
| 0:58.9 | gone longer than they ever thought without drinking or they went from drinking every day to only |
| 1:05.2 | drinking on occasion or they're just drinking more mindfully instead of being on autopilot. |
| 1:10.4 | They're starting to be really aware of their choices and what's motivating their desire and their |
| 1:16.0 | decision to drink. It doesn't really specifically matter what their progress looks like because |
| 1:22.1 | progress and the end goal is going to be different for everyone. What matters is they're making |
| 1:26.5 | progress if they can't shake their regret. And I listen to them say, yeah, yeah, this is great, |
| 1:33.4 | but I can't stop thinking about the past. I'm not proud of some of the things that I did or |
| 1:39.5 | maybe I didn't even do anything, but I'm not proud of the example that I was setting for my kids |
| 1:44.4 | at the time or I'm not proud about how long it took me to actually start to move forward and |
| 1:49.8 | figure this out. Shame and regret plague so many people who find themselves stuck in the habit |
| 1:56.1 | of drinking. I know it plagued me. I had so much shame and so much regret about so many things. |
| 2:02.3 | It felt sometimes. It felt like my past was haunting me. Even when other things in my life were |
| 2:08.3 | going well, there was always this kind of specter of the past that was reminding me of the moments |
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