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

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.

Welcome back everybody. We are talking about desire today, our desire to drink.

I'm going to share with you a little bit about some common misconceptions that we have about desire.

I'm going to talk to you about what creates our desire to drink and I'll tell you it's probably not what you think.

I'm going to show you the very first step if you want to start to change your desire and decrease your desire to drink.

Getting a handle on the desire to drink, it really is a holy grail for most of my clients.

I know I thought it was a holy grail as well when I was trying to figure out this issue for myself.

People will come to me for so many reasons. They might come to me because they're tired of how alcohol is affecting their relationships or they're frustrated that sometimes they drink too much and they don't know why.

And no matter what it is, everyone will say the same thing. They'll say, I wish I didn't desire to drink so much.

Things would be easier if I just didn't have this big desire to drink and I don't know why my desire is so much bigger than some other people in my life who don't seem to have as much desire to drink as I do.

And now wanting to contain your desire, it's not unique to drinking. It's something that people think about in lots of different areas of their life.

You can think about it in terms of weight loss. People will say, well, I wish I didn't desire to eat so much. I wish I didn't really like chocolate.

I wish I didn't really like pasta or cake, whatever it is. And if I didn't desire food, it would be a lot easier to lose weight.

The same is true for money. People who are trying to save money will be frustrated by their desire to spend it.

And they'll say, I wish I didn't have this desire to go shopping or to buy clothing or to go on vacation, whatever it is.

But it's that desire to spend it that is making it hard to save.

So all of us can relate to wanting to desire something less. And most people believe the answer is willpower.

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