You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 240.

What do 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, my friends.

We are talking about old urges today, which is kind of funny because as soon as I said

that I had the image in my mind of an urge with a cane, no longer beard,

but that's not what I'm talking about today.

What I'm talking about today are urges that seem like where did they come from?

They're an urge that maybe you haven't experienced in a very, very long time.

And I want to talk about how this happened for me recently and how it's such a beautiful opportunity

for you to really examine how it is you respond, not just to an old urge,

but to any and every urge that you have around drinking, around eating,

around procrastinating, whatever it is.

So I had this experience recently that as soon as it happened, I said to my husband,

I have got to do an episode about this.

So I went back home to New England for two weeks.

It was two-week vacation.

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