You are listening to the Take A Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 280.

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.

I'm going to talk to you today about practicing thoughts.

This is really important if you want to change your relationship with alcohol.

It's really important if you want to change your drinking habits.

Because if you listen to this podcast you know that your body doesn't make a move towards the drink

until you have a thought and a feeling, right?

The think feel act cycle, that's what's driving everything.

And so first the work is becoming aware of it.

So getting away from that place of like, I don't know why I drink that much.

I don't know. That's just who I am or it always seems to happen.

So you have to get away from that place of confusion and into the place first of awareness and start to see the cycles.

Start to see the think feel act unfold.

I was talking about this with someone today.

Actually, I was coaching her and she was saying, you know, I have this commitment to not drink when I went out to a restaurant with my husband.

And then on the way there I turned to him in the car and I said, you know, maybe I'll just have a sip of a sip of yours.

And then I got to the restaurant.

I had a sip and then I ordered one and then I ordered two and then I ordered three.

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