You are listening to the Take-A-Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 322.

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 everybody, we are talking about commitment.

This is going to be a two-part episode, why you're struggling with commitment.

I talked in my last episode about why your commitment falls apart.

This series of episodes is really about how to bring as much awareness as possible to what is going on with the habit.

I have an exercise inside the membership when people are either doing the 30-day challenge or the people who want to reintroduce alcohol, they're doing that reintroduction work.

I have an exercise all about assessing what happened.

It works if you're trying to take a break, it works if you're wanting to drink less, it kind of works across the board.

In fact, you really can apply it to so many things in life.

So that last episode was kind of step number one in assessing what happened, really understanding, okay, how were you feeling in the lead up well before?

It came time for you to actually make good on your commitment.

So I encourage you, if you haven't listened to that episode to go back and listen to episode 321, because today I really want to get into the real nitty-gritty details of what happened in the moment that split second, where you gave in, or you broke your commitment.

This is not a place that a lot of people spend a lot of time and energy.

We're very quick to be like, I don't know, I just really overdid it last night or I don't know, I just really screwed up.

We're very quick to pass judgment and because we pass judgment, because we're so quick to label what happened as a mistake or a failure or a screw up or there being something wrong with me, we're so quick to pass that judgment.

So we seldom really actually want to look closely at what happened.

We're like, oh god, do I have to go back to this place where I was a bad person or I was screwing up, I don't want to revisit that.

Listen, you weren't a bad person.

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