You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 24.

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.

Hey everybody, happy fourth of July.

I hope you have the day off. I hope you're out with friends and family. Maybe you're at a picnic or a barbecue.

Maybe you're getting ready to watch fireworks later tonight.

But whatever it is, I hope you're having a great time.

And since today is all about celebration, I thought that we would spend some time talking about a topic that comes up all the time with my clients.

And it came up a lot for me when I first started to try to unwind the habit of drinking.

And that is the topic of having fun.

I actually have so much to say about this. I was working on today's episode.

And I realized that it was too much to cover in one episode.

So I'm actually breaking this out into a little mini series. And next week I'll be talking about fun as well.

So stay tuned for part two next week.

But I wanted to really talk to you guys about this because I know a lot of you out there are struggling with this.

And I know a lot of you out there feel like taking a break from drinking or changing your drinking means that you're going to stop having fun.

So I hear a lot of versions of these two sentiments.

The first is I'm no fun when I don't drink.

Or this event will be unbearable if there isn't booze or if I'm not drinking.

Right? So I'm sure that most of you listening have thought at some point or another some iteration of one or both of those thoughts.

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