353: Revisiting: It Doesn’t Matter
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
If you had a drink after deciding you were taking a break, you might have the thought that “it doesn’t matter.” This is an extremely common thought to have when you’re struggling to stick with your commitment to change your habit.
This week, learn how the excuse of “it doesn’t matter” is getting in the way of changing your habit, and how to keep taking strides towards improving your relationship with drinking.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 353. |
| 0:06.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. |
| 0:14.0 | 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. All right, everybody, we're going to revisit an oldie but a goodie today in my library |
| 0:41.0 | of episodes. |
| 0:42.3 | This episode is all about the excuse. It doesn't matter. |
| 0:47.0 | I know you've said that a lot. I have said that a lot. I used to say it all the time about my drinking, I definitely said about my eating, I said |
| 0:55.1 | it about all the kind of plans and goals that I had in my life. |
| 0:59.5 | It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, right? |
| 1:02.3 | That moment when push came to shove, |
| 1:05.0 | when, you know, I was there, faced with the choice, |
| 1:09.0 | do I follow through with my commitment? |
| 1:11.0 | Oh, it doesn't matter. |
| 1:12.0 | The reason why I want to |
| 1:14.5 | revisit this today is not just because it comes up for so many of you, which I |
| 1:18.8 | know it does, but because it sabotages a key piece of change. |
| 1:26.4 | When you want to change your relationship with alcohol, |
| 1:29.3 | when you want to learn how to drink less |
| 1:32.1 | or stop desiring to drink so much or to remove it from your life. |
| 1:37.0 | When you want to do that when you have any of these goals, |
| 1:41.0 | one of the key components of change is really understanding what doesn't work and why it doesn't work. |
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