239: Drinking Amnesia
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
After a night of drinking, it's normal to have some physical and/or mental side effects. But a few days later, you decide to imbibe again, forgetting all about those side effects. In this episode, I share what drinking amnesia is, why it happens, and how you can use it as a tool to change your relationship with drinking.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 239. |
| 0:06.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. |
| 0:13.0 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:19.0 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:27.0 | Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, hello, hello everyone. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome back. I had a two-week vacation. It was amazing. |
| 0:43.0 | I loved it. I'm so happy to be back here though and happy to be talking with you today about drinking and misja. |
| 0:51.0 | I want to explain to you this topic and how it connects to the process of changing the habit of drinking. |
| 0:59.0 | Now I kind of came up with this idea when I was reading this article about what's going to happen after the pandemic. |
| 1:09.0 | So the idea of the article was saying that there are three ways that society really emerges from a pandemic. |
| 1:14.0 | There's rebirth of a culture, there's death of a culture, or there's cultural amnesia. |
| 1:20.0 | And I thought it was so fascinating as I was reading through this because I was thinking about how this actually relates to drinking and changing the habit of drinking and emerging from the habit. |
| 1:31.0 | So I want to explain these terms as I kind of learned about them in the context of the pandemic. |
| 1:37.0 | And then I'll talk about how this relates to your drinking and the habit change. |
| 1:42.0 | And I just like giving you all new ideas and new ways to think about the work that you are doing. |
| 1:48.0 | So this article presented three different possibilities. So when a pandemic ends, you can have the rebirth of a culture. |
| 1:57.0 | So the example they gave for that was the Black Death. This is the Bubonic Plague and the 1300s. |
| 2:02.0 | And it's crazy if you do any research on this. I don't know a lot about it. |
| 2:07.0 | But you have between 75 and 200 million people who perished. |
| 2:12.0 | But it wasn't just that people died. All of these changes happened to the world's economy and politics and religion. And it led to the foundation of the European Renaissance. |
| 2:23.0 | This time of innovation and exploration and creativity. And so out of the pandemic. |
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