410: Turning Dry January Failure Into Success

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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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Did your Dry January not go as planned?

Don't worry, you're not alone. Research shows that more people fail at Dry January than succeed. But have you ever considered how every seeming failure might just be the next step on your journey to changing your relationship with alcohol?

In this episode, I share a powerful mindset shift that can transform how you approach any goal related to your drinking, and show you how to mine the gold from your "failures" and use that data to better understand your habit.

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	If you have a dry January goal and it didn't turn out the way that you wanted, then listen up.
0:06.8	Maybe you never got it off the ground or you gave up after a week or you got to mid-month
0:12.5	and it just felt like the days were dragging by and you were tired of turning down invites.
0:18.3	This is episode 410 and I'm going to share a mindset shift that's
0:22.9	going to turn any dry January attempt, even those that didn't get off the ground into a
0:29.0	success. Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change
0:35.6	the habit from the inside out.
0:37.6	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:44.7	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.
0:52.3	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
0:59.3	There's a quote that I came across recently
1:01.9	from an abstract painter named Agnes Martin.
1:06.0	And I think that it perfectly encapsulates
1:09.7	the mindset shift that is needed when it comes to
1:13.8	learning how to change your drinking and your relationship with alcohol. So the quote is this.
1:21.9	That which seems like a false step is just the next step. And I was thinking about it a lot recently because, of
1:31.1	course, we're in the middle of January. And so many of you out there are working on a dry
1:37.6	January or attempted a dry January. And I will say this, research has shown that for all of those of you who have attempted a dry
1:48.9	January, more of you have failed. This is nothing to feel bad about. There was a survey a couple
1:55.5	years ago that found that the average American only lasted about 10 days into a dry January before giving up.
2:04.1	And it can seem really daunting or maybe even depressing to hear that data because it might
2:12.5	reinforce a story that you have that this is too hard and you're never going to be able to
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