221: Drinking at a Young Age
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
You might wish that you could go back in time and stop yourself from taking that first sip, but you can't. And the truth is, you don't need to. Tune in today to learn why no matter how early you started drinking, it is still possible for you to change your habit. I'm sharing why you aren't a lost cause and how to make saying no to alcohol a lot easier.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 221. |
| 0:06.2 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:11.3 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:16.5 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take |
| 0:23.5 | control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:29.8 | Well, hello everyone. We are talking today about what happens when you start drinking at a young |
| 0:42.4 | age. Now I work with so many people who worry because they started drinking when they were in |
| 0:49.3 | their teens that they're never going to be able to change the habit. They're never going to lose |
| 0:53.5 | their desire to drink. They're always going to feel out of control around alcohol and they believe |
| 1:00.4 | this because they tell themselves, well, I started drinking when I was really young and now that |
| 1:06.1 | I'm learning about the brain, I realize that I was interfering with my brain's development and |
| 1:11.1 | I messed up my brain in a way that I just feel like it's never going to be fixable. |
| 1:16.9 | And that's really what I want to talk to you about today because I know so many people |
| 1:22.2 | feel this way and you really don't need to. Now you can go online and there are no shortage |
| 1:29.8 | of warnings about the impact of alcohol on the developing brain. And I'm not advocating |
| 1:36.0 | for teenagers to start drinking. But if you right now are listening to this and you're 25 or |
| 1:42.7 | 35 or 45 or 65 and you're feeling really hopeless or defeated because you're thinking, okay, well |
| 1:50.4 | here I am with this habit and I started drinking when I was 12 or 14 or 16 and I'm never going to be |
| 1:57.0 | able to figure this out. I've been drinking for too long or I screwed up my brain because I started |
| 2:03.4 | when I was so young. I just want you to know you don't need to feel this way. You are not a hopeless |
| 2:09.2 | case. You have so much power to change the habit and create the relationship with alcohol that you |
| 2:15.4 | want that feels good for you. And I say this from experience because I started drinking regularly |
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