387: The Reward: What the Brain Learns

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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🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The concept of drinking to relax is nothing new. It goes hand-in-hand with the belief that you deserve a drink—whether it’s after a hard day’s work or because it’s your “me time” routine. In reality, using alcohol as a treat can backfire.

The Reward is one of the eight Drink Archetypes, and it can wrongly teach your brain that alcohol is the only way to unwind as well as convince you that drinking is a permission to stop working or to make time for yourself.

Tune in to this episode to gain a deeper understanding of The Reward, including what inactions this archetype is leading to and how you can use the Think-Feel-Act cycle to change your relationship with drinking as a means of relaxing.

Take the free Drink Archetype quiz to understand your drinking patterns and how to address them effectively: http://drinktype.com

Discover alternative approaches to drinking less inside our membership program, Take a Break: https://rachelhart.com/tab/

Get the full show notes and more information here: https://rachelhart.com/387

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart episode
0:06.8	Three hundred and 87
0:07.3	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:14.1	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why can be hard to resist
0:19.2	temptation.
0:20.2	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 everybody, welcome back.
0:38.1	So I am doing a series right now all about the drink archetypes and what your brain learns when a certain
0:45.4	archetype is activated. Now if you're not familiar with the drink archetypes these
0:49.6	are the eight different types of drinking none of of them are bad, none of them are problematic.
0:55.1	It's really about just helping you get awareness
0:58.6	about the habit and how it works
1:01.6	and what your brain thinks the drink represents.
1:04.8	That's what the archetypes is really helping give you insight into.
1:09.1	So if you don't know your
1:13.1	archetypes yet. If you haven't taken the free quiz, make sure you do that because having that
1:16.3	information on the archetypes that are most prevalent for you really will make a big
1:20.8	difference when you try to do the work of changing your relationship with
1:24.0	alcohol.
1:24.9	You can take the free quiz at drinktype.com.
1:28.2	It's really easy, you'll get your results and it will really help you as you are listening to this series and digging into the
1:35.1	archetypes and how they might be showing up for you. So I'm going to be talking
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