390: The Hourglass: What the Brain Learns
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
When you're bored it’s easy to be tempted by a drink. After all, a little buzz can help pass the time. But have you ever considered what your brain learns when you do this?
You might be surprised to discover that the faster you reach for a drink when you’re bored by what you’re doing, the more intolerable boredom becomes. This is what happens when The Hourglass—one of the eight Drink Archetypes—is activated.
In today's episode, learn more about what The Hourglass teaches your brain and what you need to do if you want to drink less when boredom strikes.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart, episode 390. |
| 0:07.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. We're challenging |
| 0:14.5 | conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist |
| 0:18.9 | temptation. 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 | Hello, my friends, welcome back. |
| 0:37.0 | We are doing another episode in my series all about what your brain learns |
| 0:42.0 | based on each of the eight different drink archetypes. |
| 0:46.2 | So the drink archetypes are really about helping you understand |
| 0:50.8 | the different ways that the human brain learns to use alcohol and what the |
| 0:56.1 | drink comes to represent so that you can understand the different types of |
| 1:01.5 | drinking that you're engaging in. This is really |
| 1:04.4 | important information if you want to change your relationship with alcohol, if you |
| 1:08.4 | want to drink less, if you want to experiment with taking breaks or having |
| 1:12.1 | alcohol-free periods during the year or if you |
| 1:14.6 | want to stop drinking. |
| 1:16.1 | So I'd like to explain this when it comes to the drink archetypes as imagining |
| 1:22.1 | four people at a restaurant together splitting a bottle of wine. |
| 1:26.9 | So their actions from the outside, they all look the same right everybody's having a glass of wine yet |
| 1:36.2 | the individual decision to drink can be motivated by very different beliefs, ideas, and emotions, which also means what each |
| 1:47.9 | individual brain is learning as they sit around that table can also be very different. |
| 1:55.0 | This is a part of the habit that is so often overlooked |
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