You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 230.

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.

Hello, hello, hello everyone.

So in the last episode we were talking about how you can use alcohol as your teacher and I got me thinking,

hey you can do the same thing with mocktails and non-alcoholic drinks.

You can use them as a teacher too.

And I wanted to talk to you about this because I just get this question so often for everyone in the 30-day challenge.

So I'm often being asked about like, is it okay to have a mocktail?

What is it okay for me to drink? Should I be allowed to have, you know, non-alcoholic beer?

And that's really what I want to get to the bottom of today because I think there are so many misconceptions about this.

I will tell you that a lot of times when we talk about mocktails or non-alcoholic drinks, people either assume,

okay so we're talking about recipes or we're talking about like, is it okay to have a drink that mimics wine or mimics beer

if you struggle with your desire to drink and your ability to say no?

And what I want you to know is that's not what we're talking about today.

We're not going to be talking about recipes or whether or not it's okay.

What we want to focus on today is what is happening in your mind.

Of course, ultimately you're always going to make the decision about what is right for you,

but I want you to make that decision from a place of power, not from a place of like,

oh, I don't know, is this good or is this bad?

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