418: Numbing the Noise Won't Work
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt so overwhelmed by your emotions that you'd do anything to forget what's bothering you?
In those moments, reaching for a drink—and then another, and another—can feel like the only way to escape. But this pattern of using alcohol to numb difficult emotions creates a problematic cycle that actually decreases your emotional resilience over time.
Tune in this week to learn about one of the most common patterns that makes it difficult to change your drinking habits: the Escape archetype, and three strategies that will help you work with your emotions rather than trying to drown them.
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 are like most people, you've probably had the experience of feeling so overwhelmed by your |
| 0:05.5 | emotions that you would do anything to forget what is bothering you, which makes it very |
| 0:10.8 | tempting to pour a drink and then another and then another. This is episode 418, and I'm talking |
| 0:18.3 | about the three overlooked ways to manage these moments without trying to drown your sorrows. |
| 0:26.9 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out. |
| 0:34.2 | We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist |
| 0:39.4 | temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop |
| 0:46.5 | worrying about your drinking. Now here's your host, Rachel Hart. |
| 0:55.5 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:56.6 | Today, we are talking about the escape archetype and how it impacts your drinking, why it makes it hard to cut back, and most importantly, how to address it. |
| 1:07.8 | The escape is a very common archetype. |
| 1:09.8 | It shows up for a lot of people. It often can show up |
| 1:14.1 | unexpectedly. So it may not have been an archetype that you kind of more consistently deal with, |
| 1:20.6 | maybe like the mask or the connector or the upgrade. The escape can show up in those moments where it just seems like life is not working. |
| 1:32.5 | Things are not going the way that you want. If you were to write the story of how this week, |
| 1:38.3 | this month, this year should be looking, it's not adhering to that story. So what happens with the escape archetype? |
| 1:47.8 | And if you want, you can go to my website, Rachelhart.com, and I have breakdowns of all of the |
| 1:53.2 | archetypes there. So you can learn more about the archetype there. But what happens with the escape |
| 1:57.3 | archetype is that your brain starts to associate alcohol with a way to forget |
| 2:05.3 | what's bothering you. So I talk a lot with the archetypes. It's not just, you know, that you love your |
| 2:10.9 | favorite drink. It's about what the drink represents. So your brain is seeing something more than, oh, like, I'm just, you know, |
| 2:20.1 | for me, it was like, I just really love a gin and tonic. Sometimes when I'd be looking at that |
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