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Take a Break from Drinking

40: The Dark Side of Blessed

Take a Break from Drinking

Rachel Hart

Alcohol, Lifecoach, Alcoholicsanonymous, Self-improvement, Hungover, Society & Culture, Smartrecovery, Drinking, Cognitivebehavioraltherapy, Education, Cbt, 12steps, Sobriety, Drunk, Recovery, Personal Journals

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Join me on this episode as we talk about how the idea of being blessed can actually work against you and may prevent you from changing your drinking. If you ever thought to yourself, “I’m so blessed… I have no right to feel this way or complain," this episode is for you.

Get full show notes and more information here: http://www.rachelhart.com/40

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 40.

0:06.0

Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit

0:12.0

from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink

0:17.0

and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools

0:24.0

to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.

0:28.0

Now, here's your host, Rachel Hart.

0:35.0

Hey everybody, how are you doing? How is your day going? Have you been on social media today?

0:42.0

If you have, you may have seen the word that we are talking about today.

0:49.0

Today, we are talking about the word blessed.

0:55.0

And if you're on social media, hashtag blessed often seems like it's everywhere.

1:01.0

And what it usually looks like is a picture of, here I am on vacation on the beach

1:07.0

at this amazing place with these amazing people doing these amazing things.

1:11.0

Hashtag blessed. Right? Hashtag blessed.

1:15.0

It can feel a little bit on social media like it's a way to show off where you are,

1:21.0

who you're with, what you're doing, but cloaking it in this concept of good fortune

1:28.0

and acknowledging how lucky you are so that you don't come off as too showy

1:33.0

or like you're bragging too much. But what I want to talk to you about today

1:39.0

is a little bit different. It's still the word blessed, but it's different from

1:46.0

how hashtag blessed has appeared everywhere in the past couple of years.

1:53.0

What I want to talk to you about is actually how I hear so many of my clients

1:59.0

and I just, I hear this over and over again using the term blessed,

2:05.0

not as a way to humbly brag about what they have in life,

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