You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 246.

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.

Alright, welcome back everyone.

Listen, today we are going to dive into something that really turns on its head a piece of conventional wisdom when it comes to alcohol and changing the habit.

Now, if you listen to the podcast, you know that I love turning conventional wisdom on its head. So we talk a lot here about how alcohol is just neutral.

It's not good or bad or right or wrong.

We talk about how how much you drink. Same thing. It's not a sign of poor moral character.

It's the result of an unconscious cycle happening inside of your brain that think Philax cycle. We don't use labels.

We don't say that the world is just divided into normal drinkers and alcoholics or that some people just can't handle alcohol.

Or that if you struggle that abstinence only forever is the only way. No, we really let you decide what relationship do you want to have with alcohol?

What do you want? What feels good for you? And then you get to decide how to make that happen.

Now, we're going to take on a piece of conventional wisdom today that I hear all the time and I'm talking about it because it actually came up recently inside the 30 day challenge.

So a lot of times people will say, listen, if you want to succeed, if you want to reach your goal, you need to surround yourself with like-minded people.

So if you want to stop drinking, you need to surround yourself with other people who are also sober and that is their goal.

And if you want to cut back, you need to make sure that your husband or your wife or your friends or your family are all on board too.

This is very common advice that people give out and someone was saying inside the 30 day challenge.

They were saying, you know, I actually really appreciate that everyone here is doing something different.

Yes, everyone is doing the 30 day challenge, but ultimately everyone's working towards a different unique goal. Some people want to drink less often.

During the week, some people want to drink less in a sitting. Some people want to take a break from drinking. They want to lay off booze for a while.

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