You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 87.

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.

Hey everybody, how are you?

I want to tell you about some work that I was doing with a client the other day

and we were actually not talking about over drinking, we were talking about over eating.

And you know that's what I love about this work because once you understand

how the thing feel like cycle works, once you understand that your thoughts

create your feelings and your feelings drive your actions and those actions can be over drinking

or they can be overeating or they can be overspending or it can just be any action

that you take. You really understand that you can apply this cycle to anything.

And you know what, I actually have a lot of listeners who will say, drinking is not an issue for me.

My problem is food or my problem is money. But I listened to your podcast and I just replaced

the word alcohol with food or the word drink with shop.

And I love that. I love that you can take this work and apply it in so many areas.

And I will tell you this, I truly believe that once I finally understood and made the connection

that drinking more than I wanted was not some sort of unique problem that could only be understood

in its own silo, but was actually connected to overeating, overspending, over working,

all these things we do to numb ourselves. It helped me get rid of all this shame that I was carrying

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