You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 12.

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, everybody. How are you? How are you doing? How's your day going?

I want to tell you how my day is going. I actually want to tell you how my day started off.

I woke up this morning at 5.30. That's when my alarm went off. I actually set it for 5.30.

I like to wake up early. I find that I'm really much more productive in the morning than I am in the afternoon or the evening.

So I tried to wake up early, but I woke up right when my alarm went off and I looked at the clock and I thought to myself,

I should have gotten up earlier.

5.30 was already really early, but I thought to myself, I should have gotten up earlier.

And I've noticed the past couple of weeks I've been paying attention to this. I notice that no matter how early I wake up,

my brain still tells myself you should have gotten up earlier.

I have the sense of feeling behind, feeling like I haven't done what I need to do before my feet even hit the floor in the morning.

And I wonder if that is familiar for any of you out there. Do any of you have that sense, like I do,

that sometimes from the moment that your eyes open in the morning, your brain is already on overdrive.

You're already running through a never ending to do list.

And it's not just about what needs to get done.

For a lot of people, it's also about what you want to improve, what you want to do better, eating better, exercising more,

figuring out your relationship, finally signing up for that class, improving something.

There's so much to do and so much to fix, and for many of us, we haven't even stepped out of the door.

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