383: Caught in a Contradiction

Take a Break from Drinking

Rachel Hart

Alcohol, Lifecoach, Alcoholicsanonymous, Self-improvement, Hungover, Society & Culture, Smartrecovery, Drinking, Cognitivebehavioraltherapy, Education, Cbt, 12steps, Sobriety, Drunk, Recovery, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

If you routinely drink too much, should you just stop drinking? What if you keep drinking, even though, deep down, you don’t believe you can moderate? These are fraught questions that often bring up a lot of fear and shame.

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is to approach the question from a different angle. In order to do this, you must explore the contradiction underlying the habit.

Everyone walks around with contradictions inside them. You say you want to lose weight, but you keep eating junk food. You want to make the most of life, yet you keep wasting hours on your phone. And you want to drink less, yet you keep going back for more.

Instead of blaming and shaming yourself, what if the contradiction is the key to change? Perhaps behaviors you view as deeply illogical, make perfect sense.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart, episode 383.
0:05.2	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit
0:11.8	from the inside out.
0:13.0	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink
0:17.0	and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:20.0	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:27.6	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
0:30.6	Hey everybody, welcome back.
0:33.0	I wanted to talk to you about a question that I got recently from someone and they
0:38.0	basically said to me, every time I drink, I drink way more than I intend and they were telling me how they've had years of
0:46.7	trying to cut back without much success and they really were at a point where they
0:51.3	felt powerless they told me you know at a point where they felt powerless.
0:52.6	They told me, you know, at this point, I believe that stopping at one or two glasses
0:58.2	is just not possible for me.
1:00.3	And their question for me was, should I just stop drinking?
1:03.7	I want to talk about this on today's episode
1:06.5	because I think it's really important and powerful
1:10.8	to look at this question,
1:12.4	should I just stop drinking through a different lens?
1:16.7	Because the conventional answer is yes of course if you have all this evidence that you
1:22.1	can't moderate if it's creating problems in your life why would you continue to drink
1:26.7	Drinking's not doing you know any favors for your body. It's not creating great outcomes to like of course just stop drinking but there's a reason why I didn't say to them yes of course in my opinion you should obviously stop
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