You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 263.

Welcome to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart.

If you're an alcoholic or an addict, this is not the show for you.

But if you're someone who has a highly functioning life doing very well,

but just drinking a bit too much and wants to take a break, then welcome to the show. Let's get started.

All right. We are talking about feeling defeated today.

So that might look like feeling defeated because you're drinking more than you want.

And nothing seems to work or feeling defeated because maybe you're not drinking,

but your frustrated like, why am I not feeling better yet?

I will tell you this that it will seem on the surface.

Like these are two different problems because of course what we want to do is fixate on alcohol consumption.

But what I want you to consider during today's episode is that really it's the same issue at work

behind the scenes when you feel this way.

So learning what to do when you feel defeated, it's not just the key to changing your relationship

with alcohol and the key to maintaining momentum because of course, if you feel defeated,

what's going to happen? You're more likely to drink. You're more likely to go back to the habit.

You're more likely to throw your hands up and say, well, this isn't working.

So I might as well just enjoy myself.

So it really is important to understand why you can fall into that place of feeling defeated

and how to address it in a productive way, rather than just kind of, you know,

push your way through, which never works in the long run.

So that's all important.

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