438: When It Feels Easier to Pour the Drink
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
When you're standing in your kitchen with a craving, there's a moment where pouring the drink feels like the path of least resistance.
The familiar routine beckons - no thinking required, no uncomfortable feelings to navigate, just the well-worn neural pathway that promises immediate relief. But what if that sense of ease is actually an illusion?
Tune in this week as Adriana Cloud joins me to explore the hidden effort that comes with drinking on autopilot, and why the "easier" choice often creates more work on the back end. Most importantly, you'll understand why putting effort into change now saves you from the exhausting cycle of shame, self-pity, and mental obsession that comes from staying on the familiar path.
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 | If you've ever thought pouring a drink is easier than doing the work of stopping myself, |
| 0:05.4 | you'll want to listen to today's episode. Sure, saying yes to a craving feels easy because it's a |
| 0:11.3 | familiar path, but familiar and easy are not the same thing. This is episode 438 and I'll show you |
| 0:18.5 | what's really going on in the moments when the drink feels like the |
| 0:21.8 | easier choice and how to reframe what's happening so that the work of change doesn't feel |
| 0:26.5 | harder than it has to. |
| 0:29.2 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:34.5 | from the inside out. |
| 0:36.4 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people |
| 0:39.2 | drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools |
| 0:46.4 | to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 1:03.7 | All right, guys, welcome back. I'm here again with Adriana Cloud, who is a coach with me inside Take a Break. And we are talking about a topic that comes up a lot when we are working with people inside the membership. |
| 1:14.0 | And that is about the amount of effort and time and energy that it takes to do this work and to retrain your brain if you want to have a different relationship with alcohol. So Adriana, |
| 1:28.2 | why don't you tell us kind of what that usually sounds like when you are helping people inside |
| 1:33.4 | ask a coach? Sure. It's usually some variation of it's too long. It takes too much to sit down |
| 1:41.4 | and write down what I'm thinking. It's just so much easier to just pour a drink |
| 1:45.8 | and not think about it. It's a matter of time. It's a matter of the mental energy that it takes. |
| 1:52.4 | And so we hear this often is that, well, it's just so much easier to drink. This work feels like |
| 1:58.7 | a lot of effort. Yeah. For, you know, people who are new, |
| 2:01.9 | who might not be familiar with the work, I want to let you know that the two foundational exercises |
| 2:07.0 | that everybody is focusing on, no matter your drink archetype. We work on these in the |
| 2:13.3 | membership. These are foundational exercises inside the ultimate guide to drinking less. There's not some |
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