309: Narrating Your Desire

Take a Break from Drinking

Rachel Hart

Alcohol, Lifecoach, Alcoholicsanonymous, Self-improvement, Hungover, Society & Culture, Smartrecovery, Drinking, Cognitivebehavioraltherapy, Education, Cbt, 12steps, Sobriety, Drunk, Recovery, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 20 December 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Narrating your desire to drink is a tool you can use to bring awareness and curiosity to your thoughts. In this episode, learn how to use this simple tool to ignite real change in your habit.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 309.
0:06.4	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:13.2	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:19.8	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:27.3	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
0:35.3	All right, welcome back everyone.
0:37.5	Today I'm talking about the power of narrating your desire.
0:43.7	So last week I gave you the gift of editing your thoughts.
0:47.5	And today I'm going to give you the gift of narrating your thoughts.
0:51.7	These are really easy, simple changes that you can make that will be incredibly transformative when it comes to taking control of your desire and actually turning down the volume on it.
1:06.9	So I want you to think about this. I want you to think about times when you have maybe been kind of fixated on a drink.
1:14.3	So I can think of times when I've been out to a restaurant with friends and we're all having dinner together and we're sharing a bottle of wine.
1:22.7	And I was done with my drink and someone else was still working on theirs and I was all up in my head.
1:30.5	I was all up in my thoughts of like, can I pour another drink?
1:34.3	Can we order another round? I can't believe how slow this person is drinking.
1:38.1	Are they going to think it's weird? If I pour myself more like all of that kind of fixation on my desire and whether or not it was okay to keep going or I would keep going and then oh God, what are they thinking?
1:54.5	I remember this happening to one year at a Christmas Eve party.
1:58.9	My family always has a Christmas Eve party and my cousin brought some homemade peppermint bark.
2:03.7	And I remember so vividly I took a piece off the platter and then I went back for another and another and then I was like, oh my God, I want another.
2:12.7	But is everyone around me noticing how much I'm eating?
2:15.3	And I was like, oh my God, who the hell cares. I just want it. And like I just had all of these thoughts, right?
2:20.5	I was just kind of like swimming in my desire and swimming in my judgment of my desire.
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