352: When the Drinks Are Free
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Free drinks are everywhere. Whether you’re at an open-bar event, there are bottomless mimosas at brunch, or they’re offering a glass of bubbly in the airport lounge, it is incredibly common to encounter free drinks. This can make saying no to those drinks extra difficult.
This week, learn how to keep working towards changing your relationship with drinking regardless of the free drinks available to you.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 352. |
| 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. |
| 0:20.0 | 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 | Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:36.0 | We're talking today about something that comes up a lot when I am working with people. |
| 0:43.0 | How it is difficult to say no when the drinks are free. |
| 0:49.0 | So it might be an open bar. |
| 0:51.0 | It might be bottomless memoses at brunch. |
| 0:54.0 | It might be a free happy hour at the hotel or free drinks in the airport lounge or on the plane or just waiters handing out bubbly at an event. |
| 1:03.0 | We encounter a lot of free alcohol in the world, which means if you want to drink less. |
| 1:10.0 | If you want to change your relationship with alcohol, if you want to stop drinking, this is a piece of the puzzle that you need to figure out. |
| 1:17.0 | But here's the thing. |
| 1:19.0 | Our attraction to free is often with more than just booze. |
| 1:24.0 | Free can be a very powerful word when it comes to all sorts of things when it comes to food or just stuff or shipping. |
| 1:33.0 | Why? Because we hear the word free and think that we're getting something valuable for nothing. |
| 1:40.0 | So we have this sense that there's only upside. |
| 1:43.0 | What's there to lose? Why not? |
| 1:45.0 | Free implies only benefits and zero cost. |
| 1:49.0 | Why not say yes to what is free? |
| 1:51.0 | There's no downside, right? |
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