You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 320.

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 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 is your host, Rachel Hart.

Welcome back everyone. So tell you this.

My four-year-old has been sick. In fact, my whole family has been sick. We all got strep.

And then we all got a virus on top of strep. And my poor little guy, my four-year-old,

has had several days in a row where he could not keep food down and the other day.

We were walking up the stairs for bedtime and I said to him, I said, you know, honey, I'm so proud of you.

And before I could finish the rest of my sentence, he looked up at me with those big brown eyes.

And he said, because I didn't throw up today, right?

And I just stopped on the stairs with him because my heart was broken a little bit.

I was like, what are you talking about? No, oh my gosh, it's okay to throw up. It's okay to be sick.

I would never, ever, ever be disappointed in you for throwing up.

But part of his brain, somewhere, somehow, had absorbed this message that he might disappoint me if he got sick.

And the reason why I'm sharing this is because everything that I am teaching you here,

everything about changing your relationship with alcohol starts with the messages in your brain.

And that's what the brain does. It absorbs ideas and concepts and messages from a very young age.

And when you understand this, it really is key to changing your drinking.

You did not grow up in a vacuum, even if no one in your family drank.

Even if you didn't drink until later in life, you still absorbed messages about alcohol and what it means to drink

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