36: How Not to Take a Break

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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🗓️ 26 September 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How you can take a break in a sustainable way, in a way that will be different than your previous attempts, and what NOT to do. Today, we get into why you should consider making a shift from focusing on removing a substance from your life to becoming a person of substance. I also cover 6 different things you should avoid doing when you want to successfully take a break, and how to turn this time into the period of meaningful personal growth and learning to understand your desire.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 36.
0:07.0	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.
0:35.0	Hello, hello, hello, how are you? How are you doing? What are you thinking about? What are you working on? How's your drinking going?
0:44.0	How's your break going? If that's what you're doing, I want to know all about it.
0:49.0	Today we are talking about how not to take a break.
0:55.0	Now listen, the name of the podcast is how to take a break from drinking.
1:00.0	But today we're talking about how not to take a break. And here's why.
1:05.0	I see the same mistakes over and over again when people are trying to change their drinking and they decide I'm just going to take a break.
1:16.0	I just got to stop for a while. Right? I see these mistakes over and over again and that's what I want to talk to you about today.
1:23.0	Now listen, I have a lot of personal experience with this. If you have been listening to the podcast, if you've picked up my book, why can't I drink like everyone else, you know that I took a lot of breaks from drinking in my 20s.
1:38.0	In fact, the very first break that I took from drinking was shortly after my 22nd birthday and it lasted for almost a year.
1:50.0	Right? But I started drinking again a year after that break after I turned about 23.
1:57.0	Because I just felt like I was always missing out. I always still have this desire with me and it felt like this battle.
2:05.0	I felt physically better. I felt emotionally better, but that sense of missing out it never left my side.
2:13.0	And so that was the very first break that I took and the very first time that I decided, okay, well this seemed good, but I'm deciding to go back to drinking because I can't handle missing out.
2:26.0	I can't handle all this desire and all this deprivation. But I would go on to take many more breaks throughout my 20s.
2:35.0	And what would usually happen would be that I would just get so fed up with myself. Maybe I did something stupid or embarrassing.
2:44.0	I just woke up feeling miserable and so hungover in the morning and I just thought like, I got to take it out, I can't do it.
2:54.0	So, you know, I have a lot of experience taking breaks and knowing what works and what doesn't work.
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