281: How to Know if You Can Change Your Drinking
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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In this episode, find out why it is totally possible for you to change your drinking no matter how many times you've tried in the past. You'll learn the exact skills you need to follow through on your plan to change your habit.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 281. |
| 0:06.6 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:11.7 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:16.9 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take |
| 0:23.9 | control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello my friends, welcome back. We are talking about something that I know |
| 0:40.0 | plagues so many of you. It plagued me too for the longest time and that is a question. |
| 0:45.4 | How do I know if I'm going to be able to change my drinking? How do I know if I'm going to be |
| 0:56.1 | able to change my relationship with alcohol? This is a question that so many of you have. |
| 1:02.8 | So you will look and see and believe that it's possible for other people. But you will have this |
| 1:11.4 | recurring question, but can I do it? And why do you have this recurring question? Because for a |
| 1:19.0 | lot of you, you have tried so many things to change and nothing has worked. I talk about this all |
| 1:28.0 | the time. I tried more things than I can count to dry and rain in my drinking. I tried setting |
| 1:40.3 | rules. I tried limiting it to certain days or certain kinds of alcohol. I tried rules about who I |
| 1:50.6 | would drink with and who I wouldn't. I tried rules around, you know, making sure that I would only |
| 1:57.0 | drink with a meal, you know, and never on an empty stomach. I mean, so many things. And of course, |
| 2:04.6 | I tried a lot of times just saying no. The problem with that when I would go into these periods of |
| 2:12.2 | like nothing works, I just have to say no. My desire wasn't changing. Number one. So I, yeah, I felt |
| 2:19.6 | like physically better, but I often felt emotionally like I feel like I'm kind of missing out or I |
| 2:27.0 | don't feel as connected or I notice that I'm isolating myself. So that didn't really help. Also, |
| 2:33.6 | I was saying no through willpower. I was saying no through distraction and avoidance. And guess what |
| 2:42.3 | that meant? It meant that I wasn't actually teaching my brain. The urges were no big deal. The |
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