244: Responsible Drinking
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The fine print on a bottle of beer usually says something like "drink responsibly" or "enjoy in moderation." But most of us have no idea what that actually means. So in this episode, find out what this contradictory messaging means and what you need to do 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 244. |
| 0:06.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:11.2 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:16.4 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take |
| 0:23.3 | control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome back everyone. Listen, I'm going to give you fair warning today is just going to be a |
| 0:39.0 | little bit of a rant from me because I have been thinking, I've been thinking a lot about the fine |
| 0:45.9 | print that I see on alcohol ads or in TV commercials or in my Instagram feed from companies selling alcohol |
| 0:56.2 | that say in tiny little letters, please drink responsibly or enjoy in moderation. And it's kind of |
| 1:05.6 | been infuriating me the more that I have been paying attention to this because you know these messages |
| 1:11.3 | are all well and good. But whenever I see an alcohol company or an advertisement say, drink responsibly, |
| 1:24.6 | I just think yeah it's one thing to say that it's another thing to teach people how. And I really |
| 1:32.4 | want you to think about this. Do you even know what responsible drinking is? Has anyone ever told you |
| 1:40.2 | or shown you? Do you know what it looks like? Has anyone ever given you the steps for how to do it? |
| 1:46.8 | My guess if you're anything like me is no. The messages that I got really from a young age can be |
| 1:55.5 | boiled down to don't drink before you're 21 and don't drink and drive. That was pretty much it. |
| 2:02.4 | And I want you to think about these messages, right? Wait until you're of age, which is so |
| 2:08.0 | fascinating, right? Because the more that you learn about the brain, the more that you understand, |
| 2:13.4 | you know, your brain, that prefrontal cortex, a part of your brain that helps with judgment and |
| 2:18.9 | weighing the pros and cons and actually starting to manage the rest of your brain, that's not even |
| 2:23.9 | fully developed by the age of 21, right? You've got to wait until you're at least 25 for that to |
| 2:29.5 | fully be developed. And then the message of like, yeah, don't get behind the wheel of a car once |
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