You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 285.

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 is your host, Rachel Hart.

Welcome back everyone.

We are talking today about what to do when change feels overwhelming.

I had someone write in recently who was saying, you know, listen to the podcast and I really

want to do this work, but then I think about everything that drinking does for me.

I think of all of the things, all of the ways that I use it and change just seems so overwhelming.

And I remember thinking this as well in my own life, in large part because I had constructed

so much of my life around alcohol.

And I don't mean that I was drinking all the time.

I just mean that it was something that my brain had learned to think, oh, a drink goes

hand in hand with this, a drink goes hand in hand at a party, at a wedding when I'm

celebrating, when I'm stressed out after work at happy hours when I'm networking, when

I'm dating, when I'm meeting new people, when I'm bored, when I want to, you have a

picnic on Central Park and listen to the symphony.

Of course we bring a bottle of wine.

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