If you find yourself continuing to give in to the urge to drink, even though you know it's not great for you, you're not alone. Focusing solely on the impact of drinking when it comes to your health only tells one piece of the story.

This week, learn the problem with focusing only on the health risks of drinking and discover another way to change your relationship with alcohol.

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For many of us, pouring a glass of wine or opening a beer at the end of a long or stressful day is the easiest way to unwind.

This week, learn why the thought that it is easier to drink is keeping you stuck in the cycle of overdrinking, and use this knowledge to create long-lasting change in your drinking habit.

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When trying to change your relationship with alcohol, subtle comments like "Oh, you're having another?" or "You sure like your wine!" can feel embarrassing and painful. But you can leverage these moments and use them to your advantage.

This week, learn how to deal with other people's subtle comments about your drinking and use them to create real change in your habit.

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Making excuses doesn't mean it's impossible for you to change. When you learn how to leverage these excuses, you are able to discover what is happening beneath the surface and start acting differently.

This week, learn how to identify the desires beneath your habits and leverage your excuses to discover a path toward drinking differently.

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When an event in your external environment doesn't make sense, the brain invents a reason to explain it. It leads you to place yourself into a binary label of good, or bad; able or unable. It prevents you from connecting with your truth.

This week, learn what is actually holding you back from making a change and the key to transforming your relationship with alcohol.

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A champagne flute on a special occasion, a delicate martini with friends, or a classic wine glass that you enjoy, the shapes of glassware can be fun and exciting. But it can feel a lot less exciting to drink a mocktail from a soda glass.

This week, learn how to leverage the think, feel, act cycle when it comes to glassware, and understand the connection between the glass you drink from and your drinking habit.

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Saying no to drinking can seem impossible when your friends gather at the winery, and your family events involve beer in the backyard. But creating a list of why you can't succeed isn't helping.

This week, learn why desire, justifying, judgment and social norms are tangled in your ability to say no peacefully. Discover methods to understand your negative emotions and how they can help you shift your habits.

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Desire cannot be tamed by shame or logical reasoning. No matter how much you shame yourself into change, it will only work temporarily.

This week, learn why managing your desire is so difficult and emotional and discover methods for understanding the process of desire within your body.

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Preparing for failure is an essential aspect of creating change in your drinking. You will not want to simply say "no" every night. This is natural and should be expected. Having tools and tactics to get you through moments when you don't want to do the work makes a big difference when it comes to changing your relationship with drinking.

This week, learn how words and willingness can help you to reframe your experiences of disappointment and restlessness as they come up. Discover the reason you don't stick to the goals you set of a morning in the evening, and how to change the way you approach frustrating experiences.

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Drinking is linked to our day-to-day life in so many different ways, from daily routines and productivity to physical and emotional health and relationships. When you change your relationship to drinking, many other things can change, and it all starts with one simple exercise.

This week, learn how to identify compelling reasons to change your relationship with alcohol and why identifying these reasons is essential in creating lasting change.

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