381: What am I waiting for?
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
You want to change your relationship with drinking, but other than listening to the podcast, you’re not doing anything about it.
This paralysis, while frustrating, is actually very normal.
Explore the three reasons this happens and how they relate to your cravings, your beliefs about failure, and your vision of the future.
Discover why your unwillingness to act isn’t illogical but actually an important piece of how the habit works.
In this episode, you’ll find a new perspective that will help make it easier to take the plunge and stop waiting around for your drinking to change on its own.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 381. |
| 0:05.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the |
| 0:11.9 | inside out. |
| 0:13.3 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:16.8 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:19.8 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about |
| 0:26.4 | your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:30.8 | Welcome back everyone. We are talking today about something that really keeps so many |
| 0:36.1 | people stuck and it is when you cannot understand, cannot fathom. |
| 0:43.0 | What on earth am I waiting for? |
| 0:45.0 | What am I waiting for? |
| 0:47.0 | I really want to change my drinking. |
| 0:50.0 | I really want to change my relationship with alcohol. |
| 0:53.7 | So why am I not doing anything about it? |
| 0:57.4 | I get this question all the time from podcast listeners. |
| 1:00.2 | So many people will say, I listen to your podcast, I listen to so many episodes. I've read your book. Why can't I drink like everyone else? |
| 1:07.0 | Everything makes so much sense, but I'm not taking action. I work on this a lot with people inside the membership. |
| 1:14.0 | They'll be on the sidelines for a long time. |
| 1:16.8 | And they're just like, I don't know, I'm not sure if I'm ready, |
| 1:18.8 | and then they will take the plunge and they will join. |
| 1:22.4 | And then sometimes it's almost like they get a little bit of a |
| 1:24.4 | freeze response and they have this moment of being like okay I'm here I finally took the plunge |
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