419: What Envy Reveals About Your Drinking
Take a Break from Drinking
Rachel Hart
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever found yourself envious of people who seem to drink with ease?
If you’re changing your relationship with alcohol, envy toward “normal drinkers” might feel familiar—but it also holds surprising insight into how your habit formed, and how you can begin to change it.
In this episode, you’ll learn how understanding envy helps you uncover limiting beliefs, sheds light on your drink archetype, and offers a deeper understanding of what you’re really craving when you reach for a drink. Rather than pushing envy away, this work is all about looking at your envy and engaging with it in a way that serves you.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt envious of normal drinkers? I know I certainly have. I used to watch friends |
| 0:05.9 | nurse a glass of wine and feel utterly perplexed at how easy it was for them to drink so |
| 0:11.9 | slowly. Or I had friends who could get drunk, but they never seemed to get sloppy. All I wanted |
| 0:18.6 | for the longest time was to be a normal drinker, and I was really envious |
| 0:22.4 | of everyone who was. This is episode 419, and I'm going to explain why envy is actually a very |
| 0:30.4 | helpful emotion when it comes to understanding why you're over-drinking, how to drink less, |
| 0:36.2 | and how to change your relationship with alcohol for good. Whether you want over drinking, how to drink less, and how to change your relationship with alcohol |
| 0:38.3 | for good. |
| 0:40.3 | Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit |
| 0:45.6 | from the inside out. We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why |
| 0:51.6 | it can be hard to resist temptation. No labels, no judgment, just practical |
| 0:57.2 | tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking. Now here's |
| 1:02.7 | your host, Rachel Hart. So the other day I was chatting on the phone with one of my oldest and dearest friends. |
| 1:14.1 | It had been a couple months since we last connected. |
| 1:16.7 | And she was telling me all about a bunch of really amazing things that were happening in her life. |
| 1:21.5 | And I was truly happy for her. |
| 1:24.1 | But when I hung up the phone, I realized I felt a little bad. I was listening to her and |
| 1:31.2 | saying the right things, but part of me on the inside was really envious, which is not something |
| 1:37.4 | that I like to admit. And I think not wanting to admit when we feel envy, I think that's common |
| 1:43.3 | for most people, right? Because who wants |
| 1:45.5 | to feel envious of others? It feels so insecure and petty and just kind of unenlightened. |
| 1:52.2 | I know for me, I think like, okay, hello, you're 44. Shouldn't you have grown out of this |
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