You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 243.

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 everyone. So listen today, I want to talk to you about what you're actually drinking when you pour yourself a drink.

Now, this is different from how it's usually discussed out in the world.

I find that it's usually discussed one of two ways.

The first is that we tend to romanticize what's in our glass. And so it looks a lot like conversations about the taste.

You know, is it sharp or sweet or smokey or bitter? Is it assertive or citrusy?

Maybe you'd start hearing people talking about hints of caramel or fig or vanilla.

We're talking about the body of a drink, the nose.

So we really will romanticize kind of the unique aspects of a specific drink.

Maybe you're talking about the growing process or the climate or the soil or the region that the drink is from or the type of grape.

Or you're talking about the aging process, right? The type of container or barrel that it was aged in.

A lot of that goes along with how we romanticize what's in the glass.

Now, I find that the flip side of this, especially when people are trying to change to their relationship with alcohol,

is they go all the way to the place of no, no, no, no, I'm not romanticizing it. I'm demonizing it.

So you focus all about the harmful effects of what's in your glass.

And how it's bad for you. It's bad for your brain. It's bad for your body. It's hurting your liver. It's hurting your heart.

It's wrecking your sleep. It's impairing your judgment.

Right. We go to this real place of like everything about alcohol is bad and it's a poison and it's toxic and it's evil.

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