You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 356.

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. Hey everybody we are talking about lack today. Lack of course is a state of

being without or you could define it as not having enough

of something or the sense that something is deficient. Lack is so important to understand because it is so often connected to the desire

to drink whether or not you realize that it is. A lot of people don't realize that lack and their desire are so

intertwined. But here's the thing. When I'm talking about lack, I'm not talking about wanting more alcohol. I'm talking about wanting more of a feeling that we're all after.

I was teaching a workshop recently inside Take a Break,

all about mastering temptation over the holidays.

We're doing a whole holiday workshop inside the membership. And I was talking about how this time of year, the end of the

year, is a time when things can really go off the rails when it comes both to drinking and eating. And it happens

for obvious reasons, right? You get to the end of the year and you thought, you know, this year

was going to be different. I was going to drink less or I was going to be different.

I was going to drink less or I was going to stop,

I was going to get healthy.

And then here you are, kind of staring down the end of the year

and you're not where you want to be. And it's really easy to decide in that moment well you know that plan didn't work so I might as well live it up

it's not just that the holidays are filled with so many opportunities to drink.

I know that they are.

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