355: Revisiting: Be Where You Are

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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🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If you reach for a drink when you get home from work, there’s a good chance you were experiencing some type of negative emotion during the day. However, it could have been so subtle you didn’t even know it was there. By bringing awareness to these subtle emotions throughout the day, you can decrease the urge you feel to drink.

In this episode, I’m sharing how to work on the skill of “being where you are” so you can notice the subtle emotions that lead you to pouring a drink at the end of the day.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart, episode 355.
0:05.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. We're challenging conventions. The 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. heart.
0:35.0	All right, everybody, welcome back.
0:37.0	Today we are going to revisit one of my very, very, very favorite episodes that I have recorded. It's called
0:46.0	Be Where You Are and I recorded it way back in 2018 so a lot of you probably haven't heard it or if you did you listen to it a really
0:56.0	long time ago. I was coaching on this very topic the other day and realized that it's been a while since I have
1:06.4	talked about it and because it's my favorite episode I want you to be exposed to these tools and also for all of you out there to
1:16.6	understand why the tools I teach in this episode are so important. So there are a lot of you who listen to this podcast and pouring a
1:26.4	drink at the end of the day is like a reward, right? You got so much done, you were doing everything on your to-do list, you were taking care of everyone's needs, and if you can identify with that
1:43.7	then this episode is especially important for you. Maybe it's not every day.
1:45.4	Maybe it's, you know, the work that you've done during the week and Friday comes around,
1:50.6	right? And then it's like, oh, okay, here's my reward. So I will tell you that so
1:57.9	often when people start trying to change their drinking and frankly I did this too when we start to want to
2:07.4	change we try to create change right at the moment before we say yes or you know once we've said yes which makes a lot of
2:16.9	sense that we're trying to intervene with the thing that we're doing in the moment. But here's the thing. If your brain associates a
2:27.4	drink with a reward, then you need to start intervening much, much earlier.
2:36.2	Because when the drink is something
2:37.9	that you crave after a long day or a long week
2:41.2	of running around, working hard, doing errands, taking care of everybody's
2:46.6	needs, answering everybody's questions, putting your needs last, then the thing that you must must do is really pay attention to the
2:57.9	thoughts and the feelings inside of you as you are doing all of these things. So well before you have the craving to drink,
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