You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 389.

Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. We're challenging conventions. The 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. heart.

Hey everybody, welcome back.

This is another episode in my series, all about what your brain learns from drinking.

So we're exploring this by examining what your brain learns from drinking.

So we're exploring this by examining

each of the eight different drink archetypes.

If you're not familiar with the drink archetypes,

they're really about helping you understand the different ways that we learn to use alcohol

and the different types of drinking. The drink archetypes are the bigger idea that people drink for very different reasons.

Now, we really aren't taught

to examine our drinking from the inside. We're taught to examine it from the outside.

In other words, we are taught to focus on how much we are drinking.

That piece matters, of course., I mean if you weren't drinking more than you wanted to

you wouldn't want to change your drinking, you wouldn't want to change your relationship with alcohol,

so the how much it still matters but we can't just focus on the

external we need to go on the inside and understand what's happening there and

that's what the drink archetypes help you do. They help you explore the why and that why you are drinking,

why you're saying yes to your cravings, why you're going back for more, why you have this desire, why you have all the chatter. That why is

essential if you want to change the habit, whether that is drinking less or

stopping or just figuring out how to have a healthier

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