You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 47.

Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.

We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.

No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.

Now, here's your host, Rachel Hart.

Hey everybody, so here's the thing.

You know how I always ask you guys to send me your ideas, your questions, the topics you want to hear me talk about on the podcast.

Well, today we are going to talk about a topic that has been my most requested topic thus far.

And that is rebellion.

So when it comes to drinking, rebellion is the idea that nobody can tell me what to do.

Nobody can tell me to drink less or take a break or sit tonight out, not even me.

Right?

It is that rebellion in the face of any rule, any restriction, any perceived authority telling you what to do.

And of course, that authority is yourself.

And let me tell you, I am so familiar with this for so long in my life, I was walking around like, listen, I have a right to drink, a right to get drunk if I want to, to get wasted if I want to.

You cannot take this away from me. I've earned this. I really had that attitude.

And I'll tell you, being able to shake that attitude, being able to change that was crucially important in my own journey.

And here's the thing, it is true.

You do have the right to drink and to drink as much as you want, especially if you're of the legal drinking age.

You have free will telling yourself that you don't have free will really is a lie.

In fact, I did a whole episode on this topic, episode 21 is called Stop Telling Yourself You Can't Drink.

Because I think this is one of the biggest things that people get tripped up on, this idea that they can't drink.

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