You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 225.

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.

All right, so welcome everyone. We are doing things a little differently today on the podcast,

because I wanted to bring someone on who just is amazing in her own right, but I wanted her to

come on so that you could really get the experience of hearing her journey and her story

as she has been working to change the habit of drinking and her relationship with alcohol,

because I know all of you hear from me and you hear about my story, but my story is just one.

Right, so often I think we approach drinking too much as if it's this cookie cutter issue.

When in reality, it's not. It looks very different for different people. So my friend Pippa is here.

Pippa is an amazing songwriter. In fact, I think that actually we were just talking before we

started recording and we're going to share one of the songs that she actually put together around

the work that she has been doing inside, take a break and her work to change the habit and

her voice will just blow you away. But I really am excited to have her here and just share a different

perspective about what this journey can look like. So welcome, Pippa. Hi, Rachel. So good to be here.

I'm so happy. So happy to have you here. So there's so many things that I want to talk to you about.

But I think one thing that will be really interesting is to talk about how you first

came to this work. So I know that you actually came to the tools that I teach and this idea of

taking a break. You came to it because you wanted actually to lose weight and you wanted,

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