414: How Zooming In Helps You Drink Less

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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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

How often do you declare to yourself, “I’m just someone who…” fill in the blank? Can’t moderate your drinking? Has an addictive personality? Is broken and has no willpower?

It's easy to turn your frustrations with drinking into sweeping declarations about who you are. But what if these thoughts aren’t as true as they feel, and there was an alternative explanation that had nothing to do with you as a person?

Listen in this week to learn how zooming in on one specific moment can reveal the real reason behind your temptations and cravings, and why understanding what's really driving your behavior in each moment is the key to changing your relationship with alcohol.

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/

Discover alternative approaches to drinking less inside our membership program, Take a Break: https://rachelhart.com/tab/

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0:00.0	If you've ever had too much to drink and woken up the next day and then thought to yourself,
0:04.5	maybe I'm just someone who can't moderate or maybe I have an addictive personality. I will tell
0:09.8	you for years, I believe that this was true about me. This is episode 414 and I'm going to help
0:16.3	you understand why these explanations feel so true, but why they actually aren't.
0:24.1	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the
0:29.1	habit from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink
0:34.5	and why it can be hard to resist temptation.
0:44.2	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
0:52.6	So my six-year-old is totally obsessed with chess. He plays with his dad and he plays on the iPad and he
1:00.6	plays in a school club. And I do not know how to play chess when I was a kid. Someone tried to teach
1:06.6	me how to play. And I remember them trying to explain all the different pieces and how they moved
1:12.6	on the board. And I remember trying to play a game, but I kept moving the pieces incorrectly. I just
1:18.7	couldn't figure it out. And I very quickly decided at a young age that this game was too confusing
1:24.9	and it was too hard. And it must only be for super smart people.
1:29.5	So I never learned.
1:30.7	But I've been watching him play with his dad and, you know, I want to be part of it.
1:35.7	He loves it so much.
1:36.7	So over the holidays, I asked my six-year-old if he would teach me how to play.
1:41.2	And he did.
1:42.1	Now listen, I am not very good.
1:45.7	He almost always wins. The other day, he did get me in checkmate in three moves, which I did not enjoy at all.
1:51.7	But I will tell you, I have been so amazed at how quickly I picked up the game, mainly because
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