You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 31.

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.

Hey guys, how are you? How's your day going?

So some of you know that before I started working as a life coach, I was working at a Human Rights Foundation in New York City.

And I will tell you, it still kind of boggles my mind when I think about the transition that I made.

I mean, I went from flying around the world and helping human rights activists all over

tell their stories to starting my own life coaching business that focuses on how to change your drinking.

It is not a career path that I could have foreseen, but here I am.

So anyway, I was working with one of my clients the other day.

And we started talking about how much power there is in the willingness to look at a problem head on.

Now, keep in mind that for many, many years, the habits that I had around alcohol and around drinking

were not something that I wanted to look at head on. Now don't get me wrong.

I thought about my drinking a lot and not only the problems that it was causing for me, right?

I thought about the struggle. So I wasn't in denial, but I also wasn't really looking at the situation head on.

Most of my looking centered around, why me? Why do I have to deal with this?

This is so unfair. Why am I the only one who struggles with her drinking? I hate this.

That's where my attention was focused.

I was so caught up in the unfairness of it all rather than just seeing the habit for what it was,

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