351: Mastering Your Urges

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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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Even when you aren’t experiencing the urge to drink, you can still have a lot of fear around urges. You might think that the urge to drink is so powerful that you won’t he able to say no.

This week, discover how to move through any urge you have including the urge to pour a drink. You’ll learn how to create a new relationship with the desire to drink so you can identify this desire without fear.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://rachelhart.com/351

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take-A-Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 351.
0:06.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:13.0	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:19.0	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:28.0	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
0:35.0	Alright everybody, welcome back.
0:37.0	So last week I shared a story from one of my listeners all about the difference between having a goal
0:45.0	when it comes to your relationship with alcohol that's kind of centralized around a number versus a goal connected to enjoyment.
0:53.0	So if you haven't listened to that episode, go back and listen because I really think understanding the difference here between focusing on a number versus focusing on enjoyment is so key.
1:06.0	So the listener who wrote in she also had a question and I promise that I would address it in an episode.
1:13.0	And this is what she wrote, how can I learn to deal with urges when I'm not having them.
1:19.0	I'm nervous about what I will do when I finally get an urge that's hard to scratch.
1:25.0	And so this is what we're going to be talking about today.
1:28.0	Not only what to do when you're like, well, I'm not having a lot of urges to drink, but also kind of that fear around that urge that's just very hard to say no to.
1:39.0	I want to start off by saying that I think one of the big mistakes that we make across the board is that we assume that the urge to drink is unlike any of our other urges.
1:54.0	And we do this, we make this assumption because we're like, well, it's different. It's alcohol.
1:59.0	Right? Alcohol intoxicates you. It's different.
2:03.0	My approach, everything that I'm teaching you guys is really to stop putting alcohol and the desire to drink in this kind of separate category.
2:16.0	Stop siloing it and treating it as if it is totally separate and totally different and unique from all our other urges.
2:28.0	And when you start to understand this, it can be incredibly, incredibly powerful.
2:35.0	Not only for the work that you're doing to change your relationship with alcohol, but the work that you're doing just in life and trying to live a life where you're not kind of being
2:46.0	led and dominated by your lower brain.
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