363: How to Have a Successful Dry January
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Taking a month off from drinking can be an incredibly powerful New Year's resolution. But if you don’t prepare for the most common stumbling blocks, your best intentions can backfire.
In this episode, you’ll discover how to set yourself up for success. You’ll learn about five key areas: urges, excuses, temptation, the habit, and staying on track. You’ll walk away with tips and tricks to help you get the most out of a month without alcohol.
Even if you’re unsure about Dry January, this episode will shed light on the patterns keeping you stuck.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://rachelhart.com/363
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 363. |
| 0:05.2 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:11.9 | 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. Hey everybody it's it's a new year we're going to talk about how to have a successful |
| 0:40.0 | dry January I'm gonna tell you this dry January it I'm going to tell you this, dry January, it is a very common New Year's |
| 0:45.7 | resolution and while I do deeply believe that it can be incredibly powerful, I also have a lot of firsthand experience that dry January |
| 0:57.0 | can really backfire. So I can't even tell you the number of times in my own life where I would make a commitment to take time off from drinking and then shortly thereafter I would find a reason to give in and I would use that as proof that something was wrong with me. |
| 1:13.8 | Or I would make it all 30 days, right? |
| 1:16.6 | I would be so good, I would feel so proud of myself, |
| 1:19.7 | and then right after, I would immediately go back to my old ways, right? As soon as I reintroduced |
| 1:26.8 | alcohol, it was like I picked up right where I left off. And then in those moments I would |
| 1:31.8 | use it as proof that like, God maybe I really can't change. |
| 1:35.9 | So if you're thinking of doing a dry January I really want to help you avoid this. Today we're going to be talking about the five things |
| 1:44.8 | that you need to have in place if you want to have a successful dry January, but more |
| 1:51.1 | importantly if you want to use this resolution to actually build a |
| 1:56.0 | foundation for the change that you seek when it comes to your relationship with |
| 2:00.6 | alcohol. So let's just dive in because number one is expect that |
| 2:05.4 | you're going to have urges. I know this sounds so obvious but I cannot tell you how |
| 2:10.7 | overlooked it is. So time and time again I see people do this. |
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