You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 76.

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 to do lists today. To do lists, do you have fun?

Do you have multiple ones? Do you have a really, really, really long one?

I was talking to a client recently who said his list was almost 27 pages. That is a long list.

And I will tell you, I for a long time in my life have been kind of a queen of multiple,

multiple to do lists. And I've really had to look and examine my thinking around them and understand

whether or not all these lists that I keep are so helpful and I'll tell you what I found a lot of

times that they were working against me. So we're going to talk about that today. But of course,

we're going to talk about how this connects with alcohol. Who would have ever thought this alcohol

and to do lists? How are they connected? But they are. I see this issue come up with so many of my

clients using a drink as a way to cope with your to-do list. Now listen, it happens in two

pretty distinct ways. The first is using a drink as a way to rest by quieting that internal critic

in your mind and giving yourself permission to kick back and to relax. So when you're go, go, go, go,

go. And you're just so exhausted. And then finally, it's when you have that glass of wine that

then you give yourself permission to acknowledge that you're tired, acknowledge that maybe you just

need to sit back. So that's one way. But there's another way too. And that second way is using a

drink and the initial stimulating effects of a buzz as a way to keep going, a way to keep pushing

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