340: Thought Sabotage

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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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When an event in your external environment doesn't make sense, the brain invents a reason to explain it. It leads you to place yourself into a binary label of good, or bad; able or unable. It prevents you from connecting with your truth.

This week, learn what is actually holding you back from making a change and the key to transforming your relationship with alcohol.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://rachelhart.com/340

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 340.
0:06.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit
0:12.0	from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink
0:17.0	and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools
0:24.0	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	Hello everyone, we're going to talk today about thought sabotage.
0:40.0	I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I've been coaching on this a lot lately.
0:45.0	And it's something that I really want to help all of you start to understand
0:50.0	because really starting to just wrap your brain around the ways in which your thought patterns
0:59.0	are what's really getting in the way of your ability to change your drinking
1:04.0	and change your relationship with alcohol can be incredibly empowering
1:09.0	and incredibly kind of freeing to start to see, oh, maybe there's nothing wrong with me.
1:17.0	Maybe it's this thought that has been on repeat for years, if not decades,
1:24.0	that really is the problem.
1:26.0	And one of the things that I love about the Think Feel Act cycle, which is the premise of
1:32.0	everything that I'm teaching here, really helping you understand that your body doesn't make a move.
1:38.0	It doesn't reach for that drink without something unfolding in your mind first.
1:42.0	One of the things that I love so much is starting to see, maybe I just need to edit a sentence.
1:49.0	Like that's it. There's just a sentence in my mind that I need to start to chip away
1:55.0	at an edit and reframe. And that's a skill that we all have.
1:59.0	We all know how to do that. You don't have to be an English major.
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