27: Competing Desires

Take a Break from Drinking

Rachel Hart

Alcohol, Lifecoach, Alcoholicsanonymous, Self-improvement, Hungover, Society & Culture, Smartrecovery, Drinking, Cognitivebehavioraltherapy, Education, Cbt, 12steps, Sobriety, Drunk, Recovery, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 25 July 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Tune in and find out why the human brain is uniquely equipped to change habits and why it feels as if you are at odds with yourself when it comes to drinking.

You won’t want to miss this opportunity to understand why your brain works the way it does and how you can use this information to create meaningful change in your life.

Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.rachelhart.com/27

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 27.
0:07.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:14.0	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:20.0	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:28.0	Now here is your host, Rachel Hart.
0:36.0	Hello everyone, how are you?
0:39.0	Listen, I gotta tell you about this movie that I saw recently. It is called The Big Sick.
0:46.0	It is so funny. It's with the actor who plays Dinesh on Silicon Valley if any of you watch that show. His name is Kumail Nanjani.
0:56.0	He and his wife Emily Gordon wrote The Big Sick and loosely based it on the beginnings of their own relationship.
1:04.0	And I'll tell you that long story short, Guy meets Girl, they fall in love, they break up because Kumail's family expects him to have an arranged marriage.
1:14.0	But then the girl falls suddenly and mysteriously gravely ill.
1:20.0	And that's where the story really starts and it's so funny. I laughed so hard you have to go check it out.
1:27.0	But I'm telling you about this movie not because it's great, which it is and you should go see it.
1:33.0	But because of what happened to me in line at the concession stand.
1:38.0	So you know that I'm always trying to scan my life and find real life applications of this work that I can share with you.
1:47.0	And you know, even though I no longer drink, I still use these tools all the time.
1:54.0	So anyway, I'm standing in line waiting to get our snacks for the movie and I will tell you I am very specific about what I eat during a movie.
2:04.0	I eat junior mints. I always have. Since I was a kid, nothing else.
2:11.0	In fact, the only time that I ever eat junior mints is in a darkened theater.
2:16.0	So my brain has a lot of practice associating the reward of junior mints with going to the movies.
2:25.0	So there we are, we're standing in line waiting to get up to the register and I look around.
2:31.0	And I notice that a lot of the display cases where they normally keep the candy and the drinks and all of that, they're empty.
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