313: Why You Aren’t Having Fun During Dry January

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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🗓️ 17 January 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Pausing your drinking for Dry January (or at any time of year) can feel like you’ve pressed pause on fun and pleasure. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Tune in this week to learn how to infuse more fun into your life even when you’re not drinking.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 313.
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	Alright everyone, today we are talking about having fun during dry January.
0:41.0	Now you can really apply what I'm going to teach today to having fun at any point of the year,
0:46.0	but I want to talk about it specifically with dry January because I watch so many people in bark on a month of not drinking.
0:55.0	And I just even hear how it's talked about. I mean, just listen to the term dry January.
1:01.0	Does that sound enjoyable?
1:04.0	It might sound very healthy, but does it sound fun when you describe something as dry?
1:12.0	Like, oh, I had a very dry conversation with this person that was a very dry talk.
1:17.0	No, it's not, it's not signaling that we're particularly having a good time or enjoying this.
1:23.0	And you guys hear me talk a lot on the podcast about words. I don't know if it's just the fact that I'm the daughter of an English teacher
1:30.0	or that I worked in communications for a long time, but I really think that words matter.
1:35.0	And a lot of times when we're approaching the work of saying no or taking a break from drinking, pressing pause,
1:44.0	taking some time off, we have this unconscious belief going along with it.
1:50.0	Like, okay, well, you know, I'm going to be really healthy. I'm going to get my gold star, but I'm not going to have a lot of fun.
1:56.0	And what I say to people all the time, whenever I'm working with people, I always really harp on the fact that
2:03.0	we cannot put fun and pleasure. We cannot put that off to the side.
2:09.0	It is important. It is essential. And in fact, I don't think that you can change your relationship with alcohol.
2:17.0	If you aren't focused on fun and pleasure, this has to be key.
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