You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 42.

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, guess what? This is my birthday this week.

And in honor of my birthday, we are going to do an entire episode all about learning how to celebrate you.

Not how to be celebrated, but how to celebrate yourself.

And listen, I promise this can happen without a glass of champagne. It really can.

Now learning how to celebrate yourself is a skill that most people do not have.

Because no one teaches us how to do this, we never learn how to celebrate ourselves.

And it is a shame because it is such an important skill to have.

What we learn instead is something very different. We learn how to let others celebrate us.

Now here's the thing, both are great. It is great to have other people celebrate you.

And it is great to be able to celebrate yourself, but there is a problem.

If you never learn how to celebrate yourself, you are always going to be dependent on others to do it for you.

And that does not put you in a very empowered position.

Now one thing for you to consider, because you know now about the ThinkFeel Act cycle,

you know that other people, the people in your life, the people who you love, your friends, your family, your partner,

they are not in charge of your feelings. You are.

And the fact of the matter is that you are the only person that can be in charge of how you feel.

Your friends and your family and your loved ones, they can try all they want.

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