You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 237.

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.

Welcome back my friends. We are going to talk today about when people in your life

think that you should keep drinking.

And this is a much more common issue than you might expect.

So many times people come to the 30-day challenge and they are knowing,

this is the right step for me. I want to do this.

I need to take a break. I want to re-examine my relationship with alcohol.

I know this is right.

But then the people closest to them will kind of say the opposite.

They'll say, oh come on, you're fine.

You don't need to do this.

You're being too hard on yourself.

You're being too restrictive.

You're being too intense or too extreme about your drinking.

Everybody drinks a little bit too much.

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