You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 54.

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, we are talking about labels today and labeling.

It's a really, really important topic.

I talk about this all the time, but I haven't yet talked about it on the podcast.

Now I have talked about it in my book, Why Can I Drink Like Everyone Else.

The book, it came out as an e-book at the end of 2016 and it is now out in print.

You can get yourself a paperback, which I love because I love writing in the margins of books.

I love taking notes. You can actually buy it on Amazon.

Anyway, if you have a copy of that book, you will see right at the very beginning I have an author's note.

Have a note describing how I do not use labels like alcoholic, sober or recovered,

either in the book or to describe myself.

And I talk about why I do this.

And the reason why I put an author's note at the beginning of the book was because this is really unusual.

In society, we are very used to talking about the issue of over drinking using these labels.

Alcoholics, sober, recovered or recovery.

And I'm putting forward a very different way of thinking about it.

So I want to have an author's note at the very beginning kind of saying, hey, listen,

it's going to sound a little different in here and here's why.

...