318: How to Say No When You’re Having a Bad Day

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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🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Discover a solution to your negative emotions that doesn’t include drinking, and find out why this solution will help you change your relationship with drinking for good.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart episode 318.
0:07.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:14.0	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.
0:35.0	Hey everybody, we are talking about something that I deal with quite a bit with people inside Take a Break.
0:43.0	And that is the question, what am I supposed to do when I'm having a crappy day?
0:49.0	How am I supposed to say no to the drink?
0:52.0	How am I supposed to stop raiding the pantry when this day has just been terrible?
0:59.0	Now I will tell you, especially when you start doing the work and learning about the thing feel ac cycle.
1:06.0	Learning how your feelings don't just happen, they're connected to what's unfolding in your mind, the meaning that you're attaching to everything that's happening.
1:18.0	Of course, you all hear me say all the time, your actions don't just happen.
1:23.0	It's connected to that bigger picture, those feelings and those thoughts.
1:28.0	And so the temptation, when you learn this work and you start to realize, oh, if I shift my thoughts, I can feel better.
1:39.0	That is such a powerful, powerful lesson to learn and skill to have.
1:45.0	But the temptation is to believe that you should never have a bad day, to believe that you should never have a negative emotion.
1:53.0	And then you start endlessly searching for what do I need to think?
1:58.0	Just tell me the thought that I need to think so that I don't have to experience this bad day so that I can avoid then trying to drink over it or eat over it.
2:10.0	And then I just want to trap, it does not work this way because I don't care how much thought work you practice.
2:17.0	That's what I'm teaching here. How to actually start to work with your thoughts.
2:22.0	How to edit them. You know how to edit all the other sentences in your life.
2:27.0	You know how to edit emails and text messages and documents.
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