357: I Almost Got Drunk Last Friday

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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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

You’ve been there. A no good, very bad day occurs and, seemingly out of nowhere, a voice in your head urges you to pour a drink. Yet you don’t abide.

You might be surprised by the ease at which you respond to such a moment of temptation. But then again, you know that developing a lasting change to your drinking requires an understanding of what that drink truly represents. This week, you’ll hear a story about how not accepting the false narrative that breaking the habit is a life-long battle can make saying “no” so much easier.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://rachelhart.com/357

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart episode, 357.
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
0:14.4	conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist
0:18.8	temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about
0:26.8	your drinking.
0:27.8	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. All right, welcome back everyone. Today, I decided I wanted to share an email that I
0:40.8	wrote a couple weeks ago from my newsletter newsletter and I decided to do this because more
0:45.8	than anything I've written and let me tell you I have written a lot this email
0:50.0	really struck a chord with people.
0:53.1	In part because I was being vulnerable, although if you read my book, if you listen to the
0:57.8	podcast, being open and honest about my struggle with drinking, and my many, many, many, failed attempts to figure it out is kind of par for the
1:05.3	course but I think the reason why so many people responded to this email was
1:11.3	because I was portraying something that we don't hear a lot about when it comes
1:15.5	to anything that feels compulsive, much less drinking.
1:20.9	And what I was talking about was ease, the ease at which I responded to a moment of temptation,
1:29.1	not just the temptation to drink, but the temptation to get drunk.
1:34.7	So often the framework we have for change is one of struggle in all caps.
1:42.1	So even if you stop drinking, it will always be a struggle and even if you change
1:45.9	your relationship with alcohol it will always be a struggle and even if you cut back it will
1:50.6	always be a struggle. And I get why we have this narrative. Change is not easy,
1:57.0	but change isn't easy precisely because we haven't equipped people to understand what it is exactly that they're trying to change.
2:07.0	It's like asking someone to fix a car who has no idea how an engine works. Change and sustained lasting change is a lot easier
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