You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 325.

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.

We are talking about rules today.

All right, rules, rules around drinking.

It's not something that I talk about a lot on the podcast because one of my fundamental beliefs is that making rules around your drinking is part of the problem.

But I do want to talk to you about them today because I do think that there is a right way to do it.

And most people who come to this work before they ever find the podcast, before they ever find my book, before they ever join the membership, they have set many rules for themselves around drinking.

I certainly did.

I set a ton of rules for myself.

So I would make rules about how much, how much in a sitting, I would make rules about spacing my drinks out.

You know, I'll have a beer and then I'll have a water.

I would make rules about pacing myself.

So trying to make a drink last for a certain amount of time.

I would have rules around who I would drink with.

I would have rules about what kind of things I would drink.

I would have rules where I would try to pace myself with a friend who I knew drank a lot slower than I did.

I would try to limit myself to certain drinks or certain types of alcohol.

I mean, I tried all the rules.

I really, really did.

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