You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 86.

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, welcome back.

Today we are talking about something that I call the mirror effect.

And what I want you to start to think about is what are the judgments that you have about other people who either do drink,

don't drink or drink too much.

And I'm going to tell you the work that I'm asking you to do today is really challenging.

And it's challenging because I'm asking you to be open to looking at your judgments of other people.

And usually these are going to be negative judgments.

People hate admitting that they judge other people negatively.

We don't like to admit this.

But listen, we do.

It's okay.

You have to be able to look at this part of your mind in order to really understand the habit.

And I will tell you this.

This so used to be me.

Listen, I still judge people, of course.

But for a very long time, I had very, very intense judgments about people and alcohol.

Now, I have done a lot of work understanding these judgments in order to be able to do the work to change my own habit.

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