424: When Drinking Less Feels Like a Fluke
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
When someone successfully moderates their drinking or says no to alcohol in situations where they previously would have reached for a drink, they tend to view it as a fluke and go back to worrying about when they'll slip up again. But was it a fluke?
As humans, we often attribute our wins to external factors - the circumstances, other people, or pure luck - rather than acknowledging our own role in making better choices. However, this mindset of not taking credit for your achievements actually makes it harder to create lasting change. So, it’s time to start recognizing the agency you exercised in these moments, even if it didn’t feel present in the moment.
Sobriety coach Adriana Cloud is back on the show this week, helping you explore the thoughts and feelings that drive successful choices around alcohol, so you can create a blueprint for repeating those results over and over, instead of dismissing your progress as a fluke.
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/
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| 0:00.0 | What happens when you make good decisions around alcohol? So, for example, you don't drink in a |
| 0:05.8 | situation where you normally would, or you have a couple drinks and then you stop when in the |
| 0:11.4 | past you would have gone overboard. Do you tell yourself that your success was a fluke? |
| 0:17.0 | Or maybe you're quick to give credit to other people or everything that was happening around you. |
| 0:22.2 | This is episode 424 and I'm breaking down why not taking credit for your wins actually gets in |
| 0:28.3 | the way of your goal of drinking less. |
| 0:32.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:37.3 | from the inside out. |
| 0:39.2 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:45.8 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:53.6 | Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 1:00.5 | All right, everybody, welcome back. I am here again today with Adriana Cloud. She coaches with |
| 1:06.5 | me inside the membership. And we were just having a conversation before we got started |
| 1:11.3 | about what we wanted to talk about. |
| 1:14.1 | And Adriana brought up a great thing |
| 1:15.8 | that she has been noticing inside the membership |
| 1:19.1 | is people not taking credit for their successes. |
| 1:24.1 | Maybe that means that you're drinking less during the week. |
| 1:29.1 | You're having less in a sitting, |
| 1:35.8 | you're experiencing events or going to, you know, vacation or restaurants, places where you would normally just automatically drink because that's just what you do. And you're not doing that. |
| 1:42.8 | And yet, despite the success, despite the wins, we often notice |
| 1:49.4 | how people will at first feel very insecure. They will feel kind of like, okay, like that one worked |
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