405: When Life Is Good but Your Drinking Isn’t

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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🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It’s easy to see why you might pour yourself a glass of wine when things aren’t going your way, but what happens if your life seems to be working out fine? Why are you still reaching for a drink?

You’ve been tricked into thinking happiness must be obtained, which is why, in order to change your actions—using alcohol for quick relief—you must first change how you think. The truth is, negative emotions are just a part of the human experience.

Listen in to learn how to avoid the trap of thinking you have “no right to complain,” which can actually worsen your relationship with alcohol. Even more, you’ll find out how to accept any emotion you are having at this moment.

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	Here's something I hear all the time from people I work with. They tell me, Rachel, I have nothing to
0:05.4	complain about. My life is really good. It doesn't make sense that I'm drinking this much or that I
0:11.0	want to escape into a bottle of wine at the end of the day. And what I always tell them is this.
0:16.2	And by the way, it's what you also need to hear too. Your life can be amazing and you can still want to
0:23.1	check out from it sometimes. That doesn't mean anything is wrong. This is episode 405 and I'm going to
0:28.7	explain why even when everything is really good in your life, you may find yourself looking for an
0:34.1	escape and how denying this very real tension or telling yourself that it just
0:38.6	shouldn't even be there can make it harder to drink less and change your relationship with
0:42.9	alcohol. Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change
0:49.5	the habit from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can
0:56.2	be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your
1:03.1	desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
1:19.6	Because this is a holiday week for so many people, I decided to re-release an episode from 2017 about the topic of feeling like you have nothing to complain about.
1:23.9	So this can happen all year round.
1:25.7	But I find that it often pops up around the holidays.
1:28.8	A lot of people have the tendency to tell themselves they should be happier during the holiday
1:34.6	season. So maybe you tell yourself, you should be grateful for all that you have, or you have so
1:39.1	much to be thankful for, or you just look around at your life and feel really blessed. Yet, something still feels off
1:46.9	and it can show up in your drinking. So here's the thing, you're torn. On the one hand,
1:51.3	you literally have nothing to complain about. And on the other hand, you can't deny the fact that
1:56.2	you're often craving an escape, which makes it really, really hard to drink less. So I want you to listen to this episode so you can understand why your efforts to be thankful,
2:05.8	which on the surface seem really positive and good, can actually backfire.
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