You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart episode 92.

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.

Hello, hello everybody. It is a beautiful morning in San Francisco.

I was actually on my Facebook group this morning. If you are not part of it, it is the private

Facebook group for the five day reset. That is the free challenge that I offer to all

of you who want to take a five day break from drinking and want to do it a different way.

Want to learn how to do it without just using willpower or resisting or just saying no,

but really start to understand what's behind the habit. So it's in there and I saw a comment

from someone who said that they had completed the full five days, but she didn't understand

why she was feeling unhappy.

And it made me think because I could so relate to where she was.

I mean, I really get this. I really understand that for all of you listening, if you are contemplating

taking a break from drinking, it's because you want to feel better and not worse.

So what gives if you've ever had this experience before where you've taken a break

and you don't feel better?

And what she was describing was a really common reason why so many people, myself included,

will fail to change the habit and pick right back up with their drinking.

I did this for so long until I discovered a different way to go about it because the reason is this.

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