You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 37.

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 is your host, Rachel Hart.

Hey everybody, how are you? What's happening? It's hot in San Francisco.

I don't know what to do with myself. It's so hot. I'm not used to it.

So I wanted to talk to you today about something I've been thinking about a lot.

I started thinking about it because I was talking with one of my clients

and one of the things that she was saying to me is that she likes the tools,

she likes doing this work, she can see the changes that are happening in her brain,

but she can't shake this one thought. And that thought is, it's just so much work.

It's so hard. I just want it to be easy.

And I see this thought. I see it come up all the time for people, all the time.

We get stuck on this thought cycle about how hard it is, how it's too much work.

You just want it to be easy. And so I want to talk to you today about why that is

and what to do when you find yourself in that thought loop.

Now, the other reason that I've been thinking about it is because I have started

going to a gym. But look, it is not just any kind of gym.

I walked into this gym for the first time a couple weeks ago.

And I was like, oh, I do not belong here. I do not think that I fit in because

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