443: Liking and Not Liking to Drink

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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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever found yourself reaching for that third drink… even though you're not really enjoying it anymore? Or maybe you wake up the next morning thinking, "Why did I do that again? I didn't even like how it made me feel."

The tension between drinking and not enjoying it creates a confusing internal struggle. Sobriety coach Adriana Cloud is back this week to explore this common frustration where part of you recognizes drinking isn't working for you anymore while another part keeps wanting more.

Tune in this week to learn why your brain creates this confusing internal conflict (and why it doesn't mean you're broken), and practical ways to work with this internal tension instead of fighting against it.

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	Here's a tug of war you might find yourself in with drinking. You get to a point where part of you
0:04.8	doesn't like how it makes you feel. Or maybe you start to realize that third glass just doesn't
0:10.7	taste as good. And yet another very vocal part of you wants to drink and wants to keep going back for
0:18.3	more. This is episode 443. And if you feel caught in this frustrating cycle, I'll explain why you
0:24.5	shouldn't use this internal tension as proof of a bigger problem, but rather see it as the
0:29.7	normal push and pull inside your brain, and explain how you can use it to discover the
0:34.7	deeper desires motivating the habit.
0:38.2	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit
0:43.5	from the inside out.
0:45.5	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist
0:50.6	temptation.
0:52.0	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your
0:56.6	desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
1:06.6	Hey everybody, welcome back. I'm here again with Adriana Cloud, who coaches with me inside of
1:13.9	Take a Break. So we wanted to talk about something that I know has come up for me. I think it's
1:21.0	come up for you as well. We hear members talking about this. And it can be a very frustrating
1:27.0	part of trying to break out of the habit and
1:33.8	the loop that you can feel in with your drinking. And that so often is the sense of like,
1:38.2	I don't really even like it. Like, I don't really like how it makes me feel, and yet I keep feeling drawn to it.
1:47.2	And it creates, actually, I think, this very confusing situation inside of yourself
1:53.2	because many times people will feel like, why am I even doing this thing that I'm not even
1:59.1	really enjoying?
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