422: What to Do When Temptation Strikes
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever set a firm intention not to drink, only to find your good intentions fall apart later in the day? It's a frustrating cycle that can leave you wondering what's wrong with you. But here's the truth: your good intentions aren't failing because of some personal flaw. They're failing because they're missing a crucial element.
On last week’s show, you learned why good intentions are just visions without plans. Today, you’ll learn the exact practice you need when temptation strikes—and it's probably not like anything you’ve been told before.
Tune in to discover why simply having good intentions isn't enough when it comes to changing your drinking habits. Rather than fighting temptation, you’ll get a technique to interrupt the habit cycle by simply acknowledging it with curiosity, and you'll gain the awareness needed to create lasting change in your relationship with alcohol.
Find a personalized approach that helps you change your habit in my new book, The Ultimate Guide to Drinking Less, here: https://rachelhart.com/guide/
Discover alternative approaches to drinking less inside our membership program, Take a Break: https://rachelhart.com/tab/
Get the full show notes, transcript, and more information here: https://rachelhart.com/422
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| 0:00.0 | How many times have you told yourself, today I'm not going to drink or I'm going to limit myself only to have your good intentions fall apart later in the day? |
| 0:09.3 | Listen, there is a very specific reason why this happens and it has nothing to do with there being something wrong with you. |
| 0:16.4 | This is episode 422 and I'm going to explain exactly what you need to practice when temptation |
| 0:23.0 | strikes. |
| 0:24.9 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the |
| 0:29.9 | habit from the inside out. |
| 0:31.7 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist |
| 0:37.3 | temptation. No labels, no judgment, |
| 0:40.9 | just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:46.5 | Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:53.4 | Hey everybody, welcome back. So in the last episode, we were talking all about why your good |
| 1:00.1 | intentions fail, right? So you wake up and you say today's going to be different and I'm not |
| 1:04.6 | going to drink or I'm only going to have one glass and then I'm going to be done. But then the |
| 1:09.2 | further you get from the morning, the more your commitment starts to waver. |
| 1:13.7 | It is something that every single person I have ever worked with experiences. |
| 1:19.7 | This is a very, very normal thing. |
| 1:23.4 | So what I'm going to do in today's episode is give you the next step for what to do when your |
| 1:31.3 | commitment starts to waiver. And this has nothing to do about figuring out how to just be more |
| 1:37.3 | disciplined or have more willpower or connect to your compelling reason. I'm going to be talking |
| 1:41.5 | about something very, very different than you're expecting. |
| 1:45.1 | But I do just want to reiterate. If you haven't listened to episode 421, go back and listen to that |
| 1:52.0 | episode because it's really important that you just have the basic framework. If you're finding |
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