You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 235.

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.

Alright, my friends, we are going to talk about why stopping drinking will not change the habit.

This is going to really have you question a lot of what we are taught to believe about habit change.

Now, some of you listening, your goal may be to stop drinking.

You may be ready to just say goodbye to alcohol.

There are others of you listening who have no plans to stop.

You just want to drink less, maybe less often, maybe less in a sitting.

What I want you to know is that no matter what your goal is and you're all going to have different ones,

your goal is always for you to decide, but even if you have no plans on stopping, I really want you to pay attention to this episode

because it's going to go deep into what we have been conditioned to believe about how to change habits.

Understanding why stopping drinking, abstaining, is not actually going to change the habit, is going to help you no matter what your goal is.

What I want you to consider is that you could stop drinking for six months or a year or a decade or more.

Even though you stopped drinking, the habit could still be fully intact in your brain and that is not what a lot of people think.

I thought that drinking too much was the problem.

Therefore, not drinking, abstaining was the solution.

I'm going to challenge all of you to really consider what you believe is the solution when it comes to changing,

not only how much you drink, but changing your relationship with alcohol.

Do you think that that solution is all about your ability to say no?

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