You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 294.

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.

All right, we are talking about something today that hits close to home for me.

We're talking about when you just don't want to feel anymore.

You know what this is like. It often happens at the end of the day.

So all of your emotions have built up.

You reach that kind of boiling point and you're just like, I just want to tap out.

I just don't want to feel anymore.

This is the point where so many of us start to get into the habit of numbing, get into the habit of reaching for that glass of wine or reaching for food or trying to find something outside of us.

Because we just don't want to feel anymore. We just don't want to feel anything.

I will tell you this happened to me the other night.

It was bedtime in my house and my four year old was screaming at the top of his lungs.

It's funny now. It's funny now to remember him in his superhero PJs screaming at me.

I did not think it was funny at the time.

My baby was in the other room crying.

My puppy was downstairs barking and I just had it.

I didn't want to be here. I didn't want to feel.

I didn't want to feel anything.

I was at that moment where all I wanted was to tap out.

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