You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 249.

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.

Hello, hello, hello everyone. Welcome back. We are talking today about when one drink isn't enough.

I will tell you this came up recently inside the 30-day challenge.

I was talking with someone who was recounting an experience of being out with friends who said, hey, you want to split a beer?

This person was like, oh my God, are these people crazy? Like why on earth would I split a beer with you?

What is the point in that? That isn't enough.

And I will just tell you when she was relating this to me. I mean, I could so see myself having these exact same thoughts.

And that's what I really want to talk with all of you today is about really understanding why one isn't enough.

And what is the enough that we're actually after? Now I will just add as an aside, I think that humans do this.

We often split things as a way to kind of a swage our guilt.

So it's a question that's often posed to the table and not just with alcohol, right?

Does everyone want to split a dessert? Do we want to split a bottle of wine?

It's this kind of unspoken like, hey, if you're going to do it, I will do it too.

And I always think it's very interesting to think about, well, why is that?

And also, what happens when someone at the table turns down the request?

When someone says, you know what, I'm not really into dessert tonight or I'm going to skip the wine.

Now often, not always, but often, you'll see that the person who posed the question about sharing,

they will go on to skip the wine or skip the dessert too.

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