You are listening to the Take-A-Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 341.

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.

All right, everybody. We are talking about excuses today.

The moment that you try to change your drinking, the moment that you try to change your relationship with alcohol,

you are going to encounter a lot of excuses that is very normal.

Nothing has gone wrong. If you feel like you have just one excuse after another after another,

that's not a problem. That doesn't mean that you're never going to figure this out.

That doesn't mean that it's impossible for you to change.

In fact, one of the things that I teach people how to do is how to actually leverage all these excuses

in order to start to discover what your desire and what the habit is really about.

This is a big piece to understand that when you have the urge to drink,

when you find it hard to say no, it's very easy to stay at this surface level

and just tell yourself, well, you know, I'm just an all-or-nothing person and once I start, I can't stop.

I'm a beer guy. I just, you know, I love wine.

We have all of these kind of surface level explanations for what is going on.

And what I'm always kind of encouraging you and everyone that I work with to do is just to consider for a moment

that maybe there's more to the habit than meets the eye.

Maybe there's another level of what is happening beneath the surface that might be at first a little difficult to see.

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