402: Why You’re Drinking Past “Enough”
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Picture this: You and a few friends have decided to split a bottle of wine. Everyone fills their glass, but there’s still a little left in the bottle. You can probably guess what happens next.
But did you know that the decision to finish the bottle might not actually be your own? It may be a pair of mental blocks preventing you from tuning in to the sensation of having had enough to drink.
Listen to this episode to explore those mental blocks and how they can easily lead to overdrinking. You’ll also learn how to reconnect with the concept of “enough” rather than relying on external indicators.
Find a personalized approach that helps you change your habit in my new book, The Ultimate Guide to Drinking Less, here: https://rachelhart.com/guide/
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| 0:00.0 | How do you know when you've had enough to drink? I'm not talking about the fine line between |
| 0:04.9 | being tipsy and being drunk. I'm talking about the feeling of being satisfied by what you're |
| 0:11.0 | drinking. This is episode 402 and you're going to learn some surprising things about the real |
| 0:17.1 | cause of drinking too much. Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:25.3 | from the inside out. |
| 0:27.2 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist |
| 0:32.3 | temptation. |
| 0:33.7 | No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. |
| 0:41.5 | Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:48.4 | We are officially in the season of overindulgence, and I decided to revisit an episode from back in 2017, |
| 0:55.9 | where I talk about the concept of enough when it comes to alcohol. |
| 1:00.3 | This is not about how many servings you're allowed to have or counting drinks. |
| 1:04.3 | It's about understanding the mental blocks that prevent you from tuning into the sensation |
| 1:09.3 | of having had enough to drink. |
| 1:12.5 | These mental blocks very easily lead to over drinking, |
| 1:15.9 | and I encourage you to listen to this episode and see how you might apply these two concepts |
| 1:21.0 | over the holiday season. Enjoy. |
| 1:24.4 | Enough is a subjective concept. |
| 1:32.3 | You can certainly find people out in the world who are handing out guidelines on how much to drink and how much to eat and how much time you should spend on |
| 1:38.4 | your devices and how much money to save and how much money to spend. But here's the thing. |
| 1:48.5 | A guideline can't ever tell you what's right for you. A guideline can't tell you what works for you. There are seven billion |
| 1:57.1 | people on the planet. And guidelines can only give a set of parameters to work with, |
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