425: Drinking Less in Social Situations
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
When you’re out with friends and everyone orders drinks, you might have thoughts like, “Well, you only live once. I want to enjoy it!” Despite wanting to drink less (or not at all), you order yourself a drink too.
You might think that having more discipline in moments like these would help you resist, but I'm here to tell you that discipline, willpower, and scare tactics aren’t the solution.
In this episode, I break down two essential steps to help you navigate social situations without alcohol. We explore how to work with your specific Drink Archetype to understand the deeper desires behind your cravings, and I show you exactly what your brain learns when you consistently use alcohol in social settings.
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/
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| 0:00.0 | You're out with friends. You want to enjoy yourself. And frankly, life is too short not to have that drink. |
| 0:06.0 | Listen, if you want to drink less or not at all in social situations, but you're having a hard time keeping your commitment, I will show you why finding more discipline is not the solution. |
| 0:17.3 | This is episode 425, and I'm outlining two important steps that will help you release the temptation to give into your cravings without relying on scare tactics or willpower. |
| 0:30.4 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. |
| 0:37.7 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:40.9 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:44.3 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire |
| 0:49.3 | and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:52.1 | Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 1:04.0 | So I got a question recently from someone who was working through the tools inside the ultimate guide to drinking less. They were making tons of amazing progress, drinking less |
| 1:09.3 | at home, but they noticed an unwillingness to try |
| 1:13.4 | social situations without drinking. And so what they told me was, basically, I'm drinking a lot |
| 1:18.6 | less than I used to, but I still feel like alcohol has this power over me. I just can't |
| 1:24.3 | seem to navigate social situations without drinking. I know I need to do this, but I make excuses to drink. And I tell me. I just can't seem to navigate social situations without drinking. I know I need to do this, |
| 1:28.7 | but I make excuses to drink. And I tell myself, I don't go out that much. I want to have fun, |
| 1:34.3 | or life is short. So I want to talk about that today because I know how challenging social |
| 1:41.8 | situations can be when you're trying to change your relationship |
| 1:45.7 | with alcohol. They were certainly a very tricky area for me to overcome. Now, this most |
| 1:52.9 | commonly shows up with three of the eight drink archetypes. There's the connector, the archetype |
| 1:59.5 | where you use alcohol to help create a sense of belonging or closeness with others. There's the connector, the archetype where you use alcohol to help create a sense of |
| 2:02.1 | belonging or closeness with others. There's the mask, the archetype where you use alcohol to help |
| 2:07.6 | you feel confident or reduce anxiety in social situations. And then there's the upgrade. So this is the |
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