You are listening to the Take-A-Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 290.

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 everyone. I'm talking today about when you have resistance to taking time off from

drinking. So I of course see this a lot because the very first thing that everyone does when they

join the membership, so take a 30 day break. That's what we do. That's what we start with.

And a lot of people will write in and they will say, well, but I've taken to breaks before

or don't actually want to stop drinking. So why would I take a break? Or now is not really a good time.

And so I see this resistance all the time coming up and I think that you really need to understand

what it is about. Because I will tell you this, I have this resistance too. I really did.

Even though I was really desperate to figure out why was my drinking something that I struggled with?

Why did it seem to look different for my friends and my family? Why did I seem to struggle to say no?

Or to rain myself in? Or why was it unpredictable? Why was sometimes I responsible? And other times it

was like, you know, 2 a.m. at the falafel truck. What was going on? I had all this desire to figure

this out. And I also often had a lot of resistance to having periods of not drinking. So what was going

on there? Now, what was going on for me is that every time I would say, you know, I just got to take

some time off. I just need a break from this. It was always motivated from usually a place of shame

and regret. And number two, it was always fueled by being a rule follower and using willpower

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