386: The Connector: What the Brain Learns
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Humans have long used alcohol’s ability to facilitate bonding by lowering people’s defenses. But you may be surprised to discover that when alcohol becomes your go-to way to open up, it can actually block your ability to connect with others (even with those you feel close to).
The Connector is one of the eight Drink Archetypes, and not only does it teach the brain that alcohol helps you lower your guard around others, but it may also leave you worried that a potential change to your drinking could threaten certain relationships.
Listen to this episode, as we take a deep dive into how this archetype can make it difficult to abstain or moderate and the three key things you probably don’t realize you’re not doing when The Connector is activated.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 386. |
| 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 can be hard to resist 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 everyone, welcome back. |
| 0:38.0 | This is part of an eight-part series that I am doing, really going into depth on the drink archetypes and what your brain |
| 0:45.4 | learns when a certain archetype is activated. I started last week with the |
| 0:50.3 | upgrade today we're going to be talking about the connector. |
| 0:53.2 | By the way if you don't know what your drink archetypes are and these are really just |
| 0:58.0 | the eight different types of drinking that can impact your relationship with alcohol. |
| 1:03.8 | They are not bad, they're not problematic, |
| 1:06.1 | there's no kind of wrong or questionable archetype to have. |
| 1:10.1 | But if you're unsure what your archetypes are, |
| 1:12.0 | you can always go to drinktype.com and take my free quiz. |
| 1:17.0 | But today we're going to be talking all about the connector archetype, which is all about your brain associating alcohol with creating, strengthening, or maintaining |
| 1:27.5 | bonds. So what I'm going to be doing is really looking and helping you understand how this works with the Think Feel Act cycle. |
| 1:37.6 | So when the connector is activated, what is happening in your mind, what is happening with your thoughts and your feelings, |
| 1:45.4 | and importantly, what are you doing beyond just maybe getting up and going to have a drink or reaching for another. |
| 1:53.7 | It's so important to understand this piece because if you want to create a sustainable |
| 1:58.9 | lasting just vastly different relationship with alcohol. It's not just about |
| 2:04.4 | saying no or gritting your teeth. In fact, when you rely on willpower as your kind of |
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