You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 39.

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, Rachel Hart.

Hey everybody, how are you doing? What is up? What have you been up to? What have I been up to? You know what?

I spent this weekend listening to the Blue Angels every day flying over my apartment.

It was Fleet Week in San Francisco.

I live down by the water. I live down by where the air show is and let me tell you it was loud.

It was really loud. It was rattling every window in my apartment, but it's pretty cool too.

Alright, so I was thinking about my neighborhood the other day because a couple blocks from my apartment.

There is a small parking lot behind this fast food place and I'll tell you the parking lot, it's nothing special. It's maybe 1500 square feet.

It's covered in asphalt as parking lots are. There's no trees, there's no shade. There are buildings on either side.

It's your standard non-descript parking lot.

And you know, I never would have paid much attention to it until a couple months ago when something changed.

So a couple months ago, the fast food restaurant closed down and we noticed that a chain link fence went up around the parking lot.

Now this is pretty normal, right? The restaurant was changing owners. They wanted to keep people out of the parking lot so they put up this chain link fence. Totally normal, right?

And it went on this way for a while. Nothing was really changing. But then a couple weekends ago, my husband and I were walking by the parking lot and it was different.

Now the parking lot itself was still the same. It was the same asphalt. It was the same chain link fence. There were still no trees, there were still no shade.

There were the same non-descript buildings to the left and to the right of the parking lot. But now in front of the chain link fence, there was a bouncer.

And inside the parking lot was filled with people drinking. And I realized, oh my god, they turned the parking lot into a bar.

But they didn't do anything to the parking lot itself. They didn't cover up the asphalt. They didn't bring in potted plants.

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