You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 247.

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 everyone.

So I want to talk to you today about something called urge worry.

So that is when you start to get nervous about your urges.

And you start to worry about what the presence of an urge to drink means.

Now I talk about urges all the time on the podcast.

There are lots and lots of episodes that you can dive into.

The work of learning how to change your response to the urge or craving

or wanting or longing to drink.

This is a big part of what I teach in the 30 day challenge.

So people don't realize that they can actually do this.

They can change their reaction to their desire.

And that actually puts them in a place of power.

And I think one of the reasons why we don't do this is because

or we don't even realize that we can do this is because we get so nervous

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