You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart, episode 362.

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, back again. Talking about the drink archetypes, if you haven't heard, which you should have by now. These are eight unconscious patterns

that influence why you drink and why you reach for another. They are a brand new

framework that I recently introduced that I am so, so, so excited about.

And today we're going to do a deep dive into one of the archetypes called the escape.

I'm going to tell you this

understanding this archetype is so important if you notice yourself pouring a drink as your

kind of go-to way to shut off your mind or forget about what's bothering you.

Now as a reminder these archetypes don't just apply to problematic drinking.

They apply to the human experience with alcohol and it's really important that

you understand which archetypes apply to you because if you want

to change your relationship with alcohol, it doesn't matter how motivated you are.

It doesn't matter how many good reasons you have to cut back or to stop. It's going to be really hard to resist

temptation. You're going to feel frustrated by your attempts to change and the fact that it always feels kind of hit or miss unless you're able to identify

what's happening beneath the surface of the habit. That's what I have been

talking about with all of you for years on this podcast. Let's understand what is

actually unfolding on the inside, what is so fast and so automatic that it

feels like nothing is there, but I tell you something always is.

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