You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 83.

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 is your host, Rachel Hart.

Well, welcome back everybody. We are talking about a really important topic today.

And it's one of those things where I hope you will see by the end how a subtle shift can make all the difference.

This is what I love about this work.

Oftentimes all we have to do is just kind of tweak our language, make a subtle shift in our thinking or our perceptions and it can create huge change.

So I was working with a client recently and she's had really amazing successes.

She no longer feels as if the decision to drink is just this automatic thing that's outside of her awareness that she doesn't have control over.

And the habit of drinking is no longer part of a daily routine for her.

So I know a lot of you guys can relate to this, the idea of every evening you're pouring yourself a glass of wine or every evening you're cracking open a beer.

And so she was no longer doing that. So she was drinking way less because again when you tally up what a nightly habit looks like it really adds up over weeks and months in the course of a year.

So she had all this amazing success, but she was still frustrated because she wasn't where she wanted to be. Her brain could spot everything that wasn't working.

And I wonder how often your brain does the same thing. I know my brain if left to its own devices, if I'm not supervising it will look for everything that isn't working.

Right. Our brain is really great at spotting the negative that used to be something that was incredibly helpful.

It used to be an evolutionary advantage to be able to spot the negative all the time.

Well, it's not so helpful anymore. But so you really have to supervise your own brain. You really have to be on top of it because this is what was happening for her.

She had all this great success, but she had it was like she had blinders on she could only see what wasn't working.

And so she would come to me and she would say, you know, I'm really frustrated because I decided to pour myself a glass of wine because I was really frustrated with my kids.

And I'm annoyed that I did that. I knew what I was doing at the time and I did it anyway.

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