395: What to Say When Someone Offers You a Drink

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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🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

No matter where you are on your journey to changing your relationship with drinking, there’s one question you’ll need to be prepared to answer—and it’s one that you may struggle with or dread: “Do you want a drink?”

While you’re trying to find the perfect response, you might actually be missing out on why saying no is so difficult in the first place. Luckily, there is a simple technique that can help you.

Listen in to learn this practice, specifically what to notice after saying no, why you should avoid lying when someone asks “why not?”, and what their response says about their relationship with alcohol.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart episode
0:03.8	375.
0:07.0	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking,
0:09.7	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 it can be hard to resist
0:19.2	temptation.
0:20.7	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.
0:37.0	Hey everybody, welcome back. We are talking today about what to say
0:40.0	when someone offers you a drink.
0:42.0	Now, this can apply in a lot of different... when someone offers you a drink.
0:42.8	Now, this can apply in a lot of different situations.
0:45.6	You may be taking the night off from drinking.
0:48.2	You may be taking a more extended break from drinking,
0:51.7	or maybe you are drinking. just don't want to go
0:55.4	overboard so really the technique that I'm gonna teach you today and I'm gonna talk
0:59.8	about why it's so important that you practice this it really applies in pretty much any situation.
1:06.0	I will tell you though I used to have so much drama about this so much drama about what
1:15.0	I should say or what to tell people or you know what sort of responses I need to
1:20.0	prepare for if someone you know wanted to ask me why I wasn't drinking I would just
1:25.4	spin and spin and spin on these questions and you can imagine that I was often very weird about turning down drinks because there was all of this internal drama that I was often wrestling with well before I even encountered this situation where someone was
1:45.3	offering me a drink. It's very normal to have that drama and in fact the technique that I'm going to
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