You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 25.

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.

Hey everybody, what's happening?

Today is the second episode on Fun. It's part of a two-part series.

Last week we talked all about the thoughts.

I'm no fun if I'm not drinking or this event will be unbearable without a drink in my hand.

So if you haven't listened to last week's episode, it's episode 24.

I want you to go do that now because it's really important that you understand these two thoughts.

You understand how they apply in your life and you understand how you have started unconsciously outsourcing fun to a drink before diving into today's topic on the difference between consuming and going to the end of the day.

For today's topic, I want you to think about a time in your life when you had fun without a drink in your hand before you started drinking.

Now I know that some of you listening started drinking at a young age, you may have started in high school, some of you maybe even started in middle school.

But most everyone has probably a good 15 years, at least of your life, when you knew how to have fun without drinking, you knew how to create fun.

You weren't dependent on a drink to have a good time because your brain had no idea that the perception of fun could be outsourced in this way.

So go back in time and think about what were you doing? What was fun for you back then? What were you spending your time on? What engaged you? What did you find exciting?

I'm sure when a lot of you think back to that time, when you think back to your time as a kid, before you started drinking, before you started having a drink in your hand to feel like you were fun or to feel like something was fun or worthwhile attending, you might notice a difference.

You might notice that those activities that you were engaging in may have been more connected to you creating your own fun.

So you might notice that you weren't just sitting around waiting for fun to happen to you, you were actually going out and creating it.

I was trying to think of a good example from my own life to demonstrate this point.

And I thought back to something that I used to do with my friends when I was probably around eight or nine years old.

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