You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 89.

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, I'm back.

I am back. Now listen, if you are a regular listener, you heard me last week in episode 88.

So you might be like, hey, what are you talking about? I'm going to tell you something.

I had a baby and yesterday he turned eight weeks old.

And so I'll tell you this, episode 88, which you heard last week, I sent to my producer almost three months ago now.

I planned it all out so that if he came two weeks early, I would have all my episodes in the bag.

So I handed that episode over and then I waited and I waited and I waited and of course he didn't come two weeks early.

He came two weeks after his due date, all nine pounds and two ounces of him. This is not a tiny baby boy.

And now here I am almost three months after I recorded episode 88 and eight weeks into being a first time mom.

I'm going to tell you something. I'm really tired. I am really tired, but I'm really excited to be back with you guys.

So on the first episode back, I thought, you know, the perfect topic is motivation because let me tell you I am dealing with that a lot right now.

So that's what I want to talk to you guys about today. Now harnessing motivation in my life has helped me change some huge things.

It got me to a place where I'm no longer drinking and I'm no longer desiring to drink.

Motivation is what helped me start a business and write a book and launch a podcast and do all these amazing really life changing things.

But the skill of motivation also helps me with all the little things in my life.

Everything that I am doing right now day to day and I will tell you I am using this skill all the dang time.

You know, it's not just that I am physically tired and my body is recovering from giving birth. And by the way, I really had the mistaken belief and it was a big mistake that if I avoided a C section, which I did, that my recovery was going to be a breeze, which is not in the case.

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