223: Why You Don't Need to Decide You're Never Drinking Again
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, find out why there is so much pressure to declare that you're never drinking again and why you don't have to make that decision (unless you want to). Discover the real decision you need to make if you want to change your relationship with alcohol.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 223. |
| 0:06.6 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:11.6 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:16.8 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take |
| 0:23.8 | control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:35.1 | Hey everyone, so today we're going to talk about deciding whether or not you should stop |
| 0:41.7 | drinking for the rest of your life. I have a very different approach to this question. |
| 0:47.1 | And partly because I think for so many people, that decision is really daunting. It's really scary. |
| 0:56.6 | It sure was for me when I thought that I had to make a decision for the rest of my life, |
| 1:03.6 | it kind of freaked me out, which is by the way why I've never made this decision. I don't walk |
| 1:10.0 | around saying, well, I promise myself that I would never drink again or I'm swearing off alcohol |
| 1:15.0 | for the rest of my life. And this can seem kind of confusing and counterintuitive for a lot of |
| 1:21.1 | people. Like, well, I don't get it. What are you doing then? But I think that's because we have |
| 1:26.0 | been sold this lie that in order to change, we have to decide what we're going to do forever. |
| 1:33.6 | And I don't think that's true. So this is what we're going to talk about today. We're going to think |
| 1:36.9 | about why exactly we have been told that we need to make a decision for the rest of our lives when |
| 1:43.4 | it comes to alcohol. Why that decision, not just the decision, whether or not you're going to do |
| 1:49.5 | that, but just being in the place of wrestling with this decision can actually backfire and keep |
| 1:56.6 | you stuck in the habit and what you should be deciding instead. So let's start first with why so |
| 2:04.0 | many people think if you struggle with your drinking, if you find it is difficult to say no, |
| 2:08.4 | if you wake up and you regret what you did last night, then you need to decide that you're never |
| 2:13.5 | drinking again. Now, this is a message that we get from AA. And of course, you've probably heard |
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