You are listening to the Tegabrag podcast with Rachel Hart episode 289.

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, we are talking about urges today.

I mean, we really talk about urges every day,

but this episode is going to be specifically focused on urges.

There are so many episodes that you can find if you want to do a deep dive into what urges are

and understanding the difference between your higher brain and your lower brain

and why that's important and ways in which you can respond to urges differently.

But what I want to talk about today on the podcast is what really makes an urge hard to say no to.

I think this piece is so important and it is often very overlooked.

Now, I'm going to say this because I've been watching this happen over and over

inside the membership and it cracks me up every time.

I've been watching people who are three or six or nine months in and they're saying,

you know, I was doing so well and I was making all this incredible progress with my urges

and now it's like the urges aren't even there.

Like the urge is not even there, but I find myself maybe eating or drinking and when there's

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