464: How do I drink less when the world is falling apart?
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
How do you drink less when the world feels overwhelming and everything in you says now is exactly the time you need it most?
When the news feels heavy and problems feel too big to fix, the urge to reach for a drink can feel completely justified, even necessary. This episode explores what's really driving that urge and why the surface explanation often misses something important.
Tune in this week to learn how the story attached to your emotions creates urgency, why feeling anxious about your anxiety intensifies the desire to escape, and how to start separating what you feel from what you make it mean.
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/
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| 0:00.0 | When the news feels overwhelming, the idea of raining in your drinking can feel kind of laughable |
| 0:05.9 | because your brain will tell you this is the exact moment when alcohol is most necessary. |
| 0:12.5 | But that's also what makes this underlying pattern and why you're stuck so hard to see. |
| 0:19.4 | This is episode 464 and I'm going to show you how not to give up |
| 0:23.1 | on your goal of drinking less when everything in the world feels like it's too much. |
| 0:28.7 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:34.0 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why |
| 0:40.0 | it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of |
| 0:47.0 | your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:57.1 | How do you not give into the urge to drink or the urge for more when it feels like the |
| 1:03.2 | world is falling apart? |
| 1:04.9 | And is this even realistic to have this goal, to have a goal to work on your drinking with everything happening in the news. |
| 1:13.9 | I was working with someone recently, and she said to me, if ever there was a good reason to drink, |
| 1:20.1 | Rachel, this is it. And I get it because this was my thought too for the longest time. And it makes a lot of |
| 1:27.0 | sense why humans have a very |
| 1:29.0 | long history of turning to alcohol when things feel overwhelming. And it doesn't mean that you're |
| 1:34.5 | doing anything wrong or bad. This isn't about judging or shaming or moralizing the decision to |
| 1:40.6 | drink when you feel overwhelmed by life or anxious about the state of the world. |
| 1:46.2 | It's about understanding the real reason why you're turning to a drink, why it's hard to say no, |
| 1:52.6 | and how not to get caught in this loop. On the surface, it seems pretty obvious. I'm drinking |
| 1:58.5 | because I'm really anxious about everything happening in the |
| 2:01.6 | world. I'm overwhelmed by it all. When you feel freaked out, what does your brain do? It goes |
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