310: The Most Important Step to Change Your Drinking

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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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The new year is around the corner, and you are so ready for this to be the year you change your drinking habit permanently. In this episode, find out the crucial first step you need to take if you want to create lasting change with your drinking habit in the new year or any other time of year.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 310.
0:06.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:13.0	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:20.0	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:28.0	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
0:36.0	Welcome back today is going to be a short and sweet episode because I know everybody's got a lot of stuff going on at the end of the year.
0:44.0	And I also notice the end of the year and you really are ready to change.
0:49.0	You are ready for this upcoming year to be different.
0:52.0	So what I'm sharing with you today is the only question, the only question that you need to ask yourself when it comes to changing your drinking.
1:03.0	And you know I'm going to tell you this. This really is the only question that you need to ever ask yourself when you're trying to figure out how to do anything in life.
1:12.0	This is a beauty of all of these skills, everything I teach around changing your desire, changing your response to urges, understanding how your mind works, everything that you learn on this journey to change your relationship with alcohol, you can apply it everywhere.
1:29.0	That really is the beauty.
1:31.0	So the question is simple.
1:33.0	Do you believe that you have what it takes to change your relationship with alcohol?
1:41.0	Do you believe that is possible? Do you believe that it is possible to have a crappy day and not crave a drink in order to feel better?
1:52.0	Do you believe that you can say no to a drink without all this internal back and forth and internal drama?
1:59.0	Do you believe that you could start drinking and then forget to finish your glass?
2:07.0	Do you believe that you could go to a party and not just have an okay time or a fine time or yeah I survived not drinking time?
2:17.0	Do you believe you could go to a party and have as much fun or more without a drink?
2:23.0	Whatever it is for you, whatever when you think about the way you want to change your relationship with alcohol, whatever feels like that stickiest area for you.
2:35.0	Maybe it's not socializing, maybe it's drinking when you get home and when you're cooking dinner, maybe it's not drinking when you're at home, it's drinking when you're watching a game with people.
2:45.0	Whatever feels like the stickiest situation for you, I just want you to ask yourself, do I believe that it is possible for me to change this?
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