Special Episode: Pandemic Justification
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.9 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Who can take a break from drinking at a time like this? Making the decision not to drink when the world is giving you permission to imbibe is one of the most powerful steps you can take to change the habit. Not only does it rewire the brain, it reinforces that you are the ultimate authority no matter what is happening in the world. To learn more about the "rolodex of excuses," check out my previous episode #78 https://rachelhart.com/78
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| 0:00.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:06.7 | from the inside out. |
| 0:08.5 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to |
| 0:13.1 | resist temptation. |
| 0:15.0 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying |
| 0:21.3 | about your drinking. |
| 0:22.9 | And now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:24.9 | Hello, my friends. |
| 0:31.7 | We are talking about pandemic justification today. |
| 0:37.8 | It's a new form of justification, but I am seeing it all the time. |
| 0:42.6 | So it came up recently because my team and I were meeting and Megan, who is a team member |
| 0:50.4 | that I could not live without, she's amazing. |
| 0:53.3 | She said, you know, I don't know, Rachel, if you checked out some of the comments that |
| 0:57.1 | you're getting in social media right now, but you're getting a lot that are basically |
| 1:02.9 | people saying, what is this woman thinking? |
| 1:05.2 | Why is she talking about taking a break at a time like this? |
| 1:09.9 | Someone even posted, does she know who's president and that the coronavirus is happening? |
| 1:15.3 | Is she aware? |
| 1:17.8 | pandemic justification is basically the sense of how unearthed could you possibly even think |
| 1:26.5 | or imagine that now would be the time when I would stop drinking or take a break from |
| 1:34.2 | drinking or even examine the habit, how unearthed could you possibly think that? |
| 1:38.8 | And it makes sense because when you have a lot of negative emotion that you don't know |
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