385: The Upgrade: What the Brain Learns
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
If you're someone who often reaches for a drink because “it would make things more special,” then you may recognize The Upgrade drink archetype—one of eight unconscious patterns that influence why you drink.
Identifying this pattern is the first step in changing your relationship with alcohol. The next is understanding how The Upgrade impacts what your brain is learning.
For instance, the desire to use alcohol to elevate an experience teaches your brain to associate drinking with a reward and, as a result, you’ll see any situation without a drink as lacking. But, by using the think-feel-act cycle, you can teach your brain something new.
Tune in this week to explore The Upgrade, how it is negatively training your brain, and the ways you can use the think-feel-act cycle to begin to change these unconscious habits.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart episode 385. |
| 0:05.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. |
| 0:14.0 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist |
| 0:19.0 | temptation. |
| 0:20.5 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:28.0 | Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. heart. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back. |
| 0:38.0 | Over the next couple weeks, I am going to be doing a series on the drink archetypes. I've talked about them on the |
| 0:44.2 | podcast before but I wanted to do this series to really help you identify what |
| 0:51.0 | your brain is learning when a certain archetype is activated. |
| 0:55.1 | So if you're not familiar with the drink archetypes, |
| 0:57.6 | these are the eight different types of drinking. |
| 1:01.0 | And it really is the idea that we drink for different reasons. |
| 1:06.4 | So you know you can have four people sitting down at a table splitting a bottle of wine. |
| 1:11.9 | Each person has their own glass of wine, but each of them may be drinking |
| 1:17.1 | for a very different reason. One person might have the upgrade archetype activated another might have the |
| 1:24.7 | connector a third might have the mask and the fourth person might be dealing with |
| 1:30.1 | the hourglass archetype so even even if their drinking appears the same on the outside, |
| 1:36.8 | very different thoughts and feelings can be happening on the inside. And the drink |
| 1:44.0 | archetypes, they are not a sign of problematic drinking. They're simply a |
| 1:48.3 | tool to help you gain awareness about the habit and show you the areas where you need to focus your attention if you |
| 1:56.8 | want to change because if you want to change your relationship with alcohol it's |
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