82: Change Without Practice

Take a Break from Drinking

Rachel Hart

Alcohol, Lifecoach, Alcoholicsanonymous, Self-improvement, Hungover, Society & Culture, Smartrecovery, Drinking, Cognitivebehavioraltherapy, Education, Cbt, 12steps, Sobriety, Drunk, Recovery, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 14 August 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

You must practice in order to create change, right? On this episode, we take a look at the real reasons why you might be having an issue with socializing without alcohol and how regular practice can make this process (as well as any other sticking point in your journey) easier and more enjoyable.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, before we get started today, I wanted to let you know that I've updated and expanded my free urge
0:07.4	Meditation. This will help you retrain your brain around the desire to drink.
0:12.9	I've now created two different meditations plus additional exercises that you can use with each one of them.
0:20.7	So if you want the details on how to grab your copy of both the audio meditations and the workbook,
0:28.4	stay tuned until the end of today's episode.
0:32.3	You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 82.
0:38.7	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the
0:44.3	inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to
0:50.4	resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and
0:57.6	stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
1:07.2	Hello everybody. So I was working with a client recently and she was feeling pretty stuck.
1:15.6	So what happened is that she had managed to stop her daily habit of drinking wine in the evening.
1:23.9	This was a big thing that she had been working on and practicing and she didn't want to have this kind
1:29.4	of routine of five o'clock rolls around and she always had a glass of wine. So she had been really
1:34.6	successful in that aspect of our work together and she was feeling a lot better, not just physically
1:40.8	but emotionally, but she was still stuck around socializing and not drinking. And we kept going back
1:51.0	and forth about the idea that what she needed to practice it, right? If she was going to learn how
1:58.4	to teach her brain to be social without a drink in her hand, she actually had to practice being social
2:05.6	without a drink in her hand. And the practice looked like going out with people and socializing and
2:12.8	having a good time and purposely not drinking solely to watch her brain, right? You really want
2:21.6	to be able to do this work when you're practicing. It's not just about, okay, I'm going to go out and
2:27.6	say no or I'm going to come home tonight and say no. It really is about can I practice with the
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