45: Harnessing Metaphor

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

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Take a Break from Drinking, we pull back the curtain on how the language you unconsciously use to describe your feelings and urges, can actually be unhelpful. The good news is that once you understand how this process works, you can harness different metaphors to help you change your drinking.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 45.
0:06.5	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking,
0:09.1	this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:13.1	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink
0:16.6	and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:19.6	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools
0:23.4	to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:28.0	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
0:35.2	Hey everybody, how are you doing?
0:37.7	We are talking about one of my favorite topics today,
0:40.5	which is the ways in which the brain makes things in our environment
0:46.6	that are intangible, tangible.
0:49.8	I love this.
0:50.3	I think it's incredibly interesting.
0:52.7	There's a lot here today for you to learn and see how small
0:57.1	shifts can make a tremendous difference.
1:00.0	You know, so much of what I'm talking to all of you about,
1:03.0	I'm talking about emotions and urges and feelings and all these things
1:06.6	that are intangible, right?
1:08.2	You can't see them.
1:09.6	There's no substance to touch or to feel, right?
1:13.6	And because of that, they can feel really mysterious and very unknown.
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