439: Non-Alcoholic Drinks: Safe Swap or Slippery Slope

Take a Break from Drinking

Rachel Hart

Alcohol, Lifecoach, Alcoholicsanonymous, Self-improvement, Hungover, Society & Culture, Smartrecovery, Drinking, Cognitivebehavioraltherapy, Education, Cbt, 12steps, Sobriety, Drunk, Recovery, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever stood in front of the growing selection of non-alcoholic beverages and wondered if they're a smart choice or a slippery slope?

Non-alcoholic drinks are everywhere now: fancy mocktails at restaurants, craft NA beers at the grocery store, entire shops dedicated to alcohol-free spirits. But beneath the surface of this booming market lies a deeper question that many people wrestle with: are these drinks helping you move forward, or are they keeping you stuck in old patterns? The answer isn't as straightforward as you might think.

Tune in this week as Adriana Cloud joins me to dig into the archetypes most connected to non-alcoholic drinks, and explore how to approach these beverages with curiosity rather than rules.

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0:00.0	ever wonder if non-alcoholic drinks are a safe choice or if they're just playing with fire.
0:05.7	I'm digging into the real questions you need to ask yourself before pouring one.
0:10.2	We'll talk about the archetypes they are most connected with, what hidden pitfalls to watch out for,
0:15.2	and how to approach non-acoholic drinks with curiosity instead of judgment.
0:19.8	This is episode 439, and if you've ever thought,
0:22.7	is this mocktail helping me or pulling me back towards old habits? This conversation will give
0:27.8	you the clarity you need. Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will
0:34.4	help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:40.7	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:44.1	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire
0:49.2	and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:51.9	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
1:04.9	Hey everybody. Welcome back. So I have Adriana Cloud here with us again today. She coaches with me inside the Take a Break membership. And we are going to be talking today about non-alcoholic drinks because this is actually
1:14.5	an area where a lot of people have questions or get confused.
1:18.1	And we're often helping people kind of navigate and dispel a lot of myths about non-alcoholic
1:25.2	beverages and whether or not they're okay.
1:28.0	And so that's what we're going to be sharing with you all today.
1:30.0	Adriana, what do you often hear people asking inside the membership about non-alcoholic drinks?
1:37.0	So again, NA, alcohol-free, whatever you want to call it.
1:40.6	Right.
1:40.9	So the usual question that comes up is, is it okay to replace alcohol with non-alcoholic
1:46.3	drinks? And is it dangerous to keep relying on non-alcoholic drinks where before we were
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