416: Are You in a Pleasure Desert?

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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🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

If you're constantly rushing through your days, checking off endless to-do lists, and using alcohol as a reward, you might be living in a "pleasure desert.”

When you're constantly focused on getting things done and denying yourself small pleasures, it's no wonder you feel the need to fill your evenings with alcohol. But what if there was another way?

Listen in this week to learn why the Reward and Upgrade drinking archetypes often go hand-in-hand, and how, by simply paying attention to the little joys sprinkled throughout your day, you can reduce your cravings and break out of this cycle.

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	Do you run around all day trying to get everything done and then find yourself drinking in the
0:04.7	evenings because you deserve it and you deserve to feel good? This is episode 416 and I'm explaining
0:11.6	how the reward archetype and the upgrade archetypes often go hand in hand and why they can make it
0:18.4	so hard to resist temptation at the end of the day.
0:21.5	I'm also going to talk about what you need to do to break out of this cycle,
0:25.6	and I promise it's not what you expect.
0:29.2	Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking,
0:32.2	this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.
0:35.9	We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist
0:41.5	temptation.
0:42.9	No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying
0:49.2	about your drinking.
0:50.7	Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.
0:57.6	All right.
0:58.4	So if you've ever joined me on one of my webinars or one of my coaching calls, you may have
1:05.0	caught a glimpse of my Bernadoodle, Violet, hanging out in my office.
1:09.7	She's actually asleep in my office right now.
1:12.9	She's three years old. I'm obsessed with her, to put it mildly. We got her when she was 10 weeks old.
1:18.9	I think I was seven months pregnant when we got her, which is a kind of insane time to get a puppy.
1:25.0	Everyone in our neighborhood made clear, like, what are you guys doing? This is a crazy time to get a puppy. But in our neighborhood made clear, like, what are you guys doing?
1:28.2	This is a crazy time to get a puppy. But I guess we figured, you know, our life was going to get
1:32.5	crazier with the second baby. So why not make it even crazier with a puppy? So she has been in my
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