Rachel Hart

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2,663 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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Take a Break from Drinking: Practical Tools to Drink Less & Change Your Relationship with Alcohol · 481: Wanting to prove you can drink less · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

And I will be totally honest, I spent so much of my own journey voicing these exact same desires. voice-verified

And on the surface, these desires can seem voice-verified

Like they're really about quantity, about how much you're drinking. voice-verified

So it's the idea of I want to still drink, but just not too much, or I want to have alcohol in my life, but in a moderate way. voice-verified

But what I want all of you listening today to consider is that your desire to drink less isn't just about alcohol. voice-verified

What I have found over voice-verified

And over again is that the desire to change your drinking is so often also about identity. voice-verified

It's about how you want to see yourself and not understanding this piece of the equation, not understanding what hides underneath. voice-verified

So many of these statements about wanting to drink less, not understanding that it's actually an attempt to reckon with how you see yourself. voice-verified

This is one of the biggest reasons why I see people getting stuck and why it can feel like you're going in circles with your attempts at change. voice-verified

So maybe it feels like you're making some progress and then you slip back into old behaviors, or you feel really motivated and really determined that this time is voice-verified

But then after a while you lose steam. voice-verified

Because if you don't understand the full scope of what's driving the desire to prove that you can drink less or prove that you can handle alcohol, you're gonna find it harder to reach your goal. voice-verified

When externally you say, Listen, I just want to drink less, but internally you're hoping to prove something about who you are and how you see yourself. voice-verified

What you will often find is that voice-verified

These two goals, the goals of changing how much you drink, and the goal of changing how you see yourself, they actually can end up at odds with one another. voice-verified

Because I will tell you this: learning how to work with your urges and your cravings and your excuses, it requires things like curiosity and experimentation and a willingness to listen to what's happening inside of you and work. voice-verified

With what's happening inside of you rather than clinging to the way you think things should be. voice-verified

Whereas proving something about who you are, it just doesn't draw from the same skills. voice-verified

When we're trying to prove something about ourselves, we are so often caught up in trying to do things right, trying not to make mistakes, and measuring ourselves against an external standard. voice-verified

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