You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 77.

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 guys, we are talking about transition time today.

We're talking about how pouring a drink can become a marker for the end of the day and help you transition into a different part of the day.

Now I know a lot of you can probably really connect with this idea, the idea of you come home after a long day's work, what do you do? You pour yourself a drink.

So it's important to understand why this happens and how this can get in the way of change when you want to change the habit of drinking.

But first you really need to understand why it is that we're looking for transition time, why it is that things can become markers of the end of the day so that you can see how you can create different transitions and different markers for yourself.

So for those of you who have been listening to the podcast for a while, you know that I live in San Francisco.

But when I originally met my husband, both of us were living and working in New York City.

And back then we both had different jobs, but both of those jobs required that we dress pretty formally.

And when we started dating, we had a joke when we would meet up with each other at one of our apartments.

And we started seeing to each other days done pants off, which was really just our way of joking about how as soon as we walked through the door, both of us wanted to change into something different.

We wanted to get out of our more formal work clothes and into something more comfortable.

And that became the change of clothes became our marker that the day was over.

And it's interesting to think about why do we need markers for the day being over?

And how does transition time fit into this?

You know, a marker is just a sign for your brain to switch gears.

It's a signal that you might be going from work mode to home mode.

It's a sign also that your brain needs to start performing in a different way, because the parts of your brain that you use to edit a document or deliver it to you,

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