393: Why Can’t I Drink Like Everyone Else?
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
You may have asked yourself the morning after a long night of drinking or while sitting across from someone sipping their first cocktail as you finish your third: "Why can’t I drink like everyone else?"
But what if your drinking has little to do with alcohol? Instead, what if it's a matter of coping with your humanness? In that case, the problem is actually the conversations our society has about drinking.
Tune in to discover why our one-size-fits-all approach to drinking interferes with your ability to intelligently examine your relationship with alcohol and your cravings- and what to do about it.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart, episode 393. |
| 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 convention. The 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 | Welcome back everyone. |
| 0:37.0 | So I was thinking a lot about today's episode and I was planning what to talk about. |
| 0:40.0 | I realized I've never done an episode |
| 0:46.7 | directly addressing the question why can't I drink like everyone else? |
| 0:53.5 | I will tell you, because I know if you listen to the podcast, |
| 0:56.7 | you've heard me talk about this question before. |
| 0:59.7 | This was a question that plagued me for so long about my own drinking. |
| 1:05.6 | I would look at my best friend, I would look at my sister, I'd look at other people in my life, |
| 1:09.9 | and I always felt like something about my drinking was off. You know, I drink wanted more. |
| 1:13.0 | My drinking was off. |
| 1:14.0 | You know, I drink too fast, I always wanted more. |
| 1:16.4 | I didn't know when enough was enough. |
| 1:18.7 | And, you know, to be really honest, and I'm not even sure that part of me back then could have been |
| 1:25.8 | honest about this but there was a part of me that deeply craved getting fucked up. |
| 1:33.8 | Truly, despite all the negative consequences, |
| 1:37.0 | sometimes I really just wanted nothing more |
| 1:42.2 | than to feel totally separate and separated from me, the everyday |
| 1:49.1 | me that was moving through my life. |
| 1:52.0 | I didn't want to hear my inner critic |
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