398: Becoming a Normal Drinker
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever wish you could just be a "normal" drinker? Do you fantasize that if you could fix your drinking, you'd finally feel okay about yourself?
The truth is, becoming a normal drinker isn't really about the alcohol. It's about the story we tell ourselves - that if we can just change this one thing, we'll be worthy and whole. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work that way.
In this episode, I dive into the fantasy of normal drinking and share the worst and best news about what it really takes to change your relationship with alcohol and with yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Take a Break Podcast with Rachel Heart, episode 398. |
| 0:05.0 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. |
| 0:13.4 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink |
| 0:17.1 | and why it can be hard to resist temptation. |
| 0:20.1 | 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. Welcome back everybody so today we are talking about the desire to be a normal |
| 0:40.0 | drinker which of course is very linked to the desire to change your relationship with alcohol |
| 0:46.3 | or figure out what kind of relationship you want to have with alcohol. |
| 0:50.7 | So one of the things that really makes my approach different and my work different is that I am not prescriptive |
| 0:56.3 | about how much you should or shouldn't be drinking. I'm not handing out guidelines. I'm not the arbiter of what is good drinking versus bad drinking. |
| 1:05.0 | I'm really just here to help you figure out what feels right for you and how to reach that place to give you the tools that you need to get there. |
| 1:16.1 | Different people are going to land in different places. |
| 1:18.8 | The goal you have right now may change next year or five years or a decade from now and that's okay. |
| 1:25.8 | It's okay for us to arrive in different places. It's okay for our goal to change. |
| 1:30.4 | It's not about everybody arriving at the same, you know, magical perfect point with their drinking. |
| 1:36.3 | It's about believing that you know what's best for you and you know how to get there. You know how to accomplish that. Again, that piece is |
| 1:48.8 | what is so often missing. How do I accomplish that because nobody gives us tools nobody really helps us figure it out I want to add though |
| 1:57.3 | that kind of culturally we have this idea that people are often in denial. |
| 2:04.3 | So denial about their drinking or denial about their health |
| 2:07.5 | or denial about their relationships. |
| 2:09.0 | I mean denial has really seeped into how we explain why people aren't making the changes in their life |
| 2:16.6 | that we think they should make. And the reason why I bring this up is if people |
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