You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 222.

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. Today we're going to be talking about using alcohol as a boundary.

Now this happens a lot when you develop a habit around drinking and it sounds sort of strange

using alcohol as a boundary because we usually think of alcohol and boundaries very differently.

We think about setting boundaries with alcohol and kind of drawing a line in the sand and saying,

okay, no more than two glasses tonight or no drinking during the week or no drinking on my own.

But that's not what I'm talking about today. What I'm talking about today in this episode

is not setting boundaries with how much you drink or how often you drink. I'm talking about

using alcohol as a boundary in your life using alcohol as a way to say, hey, I'm pouring a drink.

So my day is done. I'm off the clock, work duty or parent duty or both. They're over.

This comes up all the time for people that I work with and it really is important for you to

start thinking about, hey, how might I be doing this in my life? How might I be using alcohol as a

boundary and how might that be fueling the habit? So it's going to be really helpful for you to start

to understand when you consider this concept about how it will make it hard for you to say no.

So many people really can relate to using alcohol as a boundary. They just don't have a name

for what they're doing or why they're doing it. And this is something that I really relate to.

I didn't have a name for what I was doing with alcohol, how I was using it to try to set a boundary

or why I was using it in that way for so long, which made it so challenging to try to change the

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