The Sober Mom Life

Alcohol might be one of the longest-standing relationships in your life, and today's episode will give you permission to grieve the breakup.
You were taught to put alcohol on a pedestal - a magical substance that ‘would make every experience better’. Realizing that lie might come with sadness, confusion, anger, and...yes, grief.
Lean into that. Feel it all. You won't stay there.
I’m proud of you. Keep going.

Read more about my thoughts on grieving alcohol on my Substack: https://suzannewarye.substack.com/p/on-grieving-alcohol-in-early-sobriety

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Real Sober Mom Danielle couldn’t imagine a life without alcohol. Though alcohol didn’t play a large role in her upbringing in the Congo with her missionary family, it slowly began to creep into her life after the death of her grandmother who she’d been taking care of in her early 20s in Colorado. Alcohol showed up for Danielle in her grief, and from that point she began to really love the way it made her feel.

Drinking was the norm at the school Danielle began to teach at, which cemented it even more deeply into her lifestyle. More and more each year, she leaned on it to get herself through the grief of a miscarriage and the consistent challenges of being a teacher.

Danielle knew she needed to quit, but she had no clue what a positive sober life could look like. It wasn’t until she found this podcast that she began to hear stories of women who actually loved their sober lives. After the loss of a close friend this past summer, Danielle knew it was time to quit. So, she began to search for the joy in sobriety. She is now six months sober and she wants to encourage you to keep going!

Community makes all the difference. Join The Sober Mom Life Cafe for 6+ Peer Support meetings each week and a private Facebook group to connect with sober and sober-curious women.

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Smack dab in the middle of my book The Sober Shift you’ll find my ten things that I want you to keep in mind during early sobriety. This special segment of the book is a really handy support that will help to ground you at any point when your sobriety is feeling overwhelming. Today I’ll give you a lightning fast overview of these ten things.

If you want to go deeper with these tips go grab your copy of The Sober Shift!

Plus - we’ll talk about what you can expect from The Weekend Reset moving forward.

Community makes all the difference. Join The Sober Mom Life Cafe for 6+ Peer Support meetings each week and a private Facebook group to connect with sober and sober-curious women.

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If you’ve struggled with how to navigate your sobriety journey when your partner still drinks, then this episode is for you. Relationship expert Dr. Alexandra Solomon joins me for a chat about how to navigate big transitions in your long term relationship.

We’ll discuss her three books Loving Bravely, Taking Sexy Back, and Love Every Day, and Alexandra will share her thoughts on couples therapy, navigating growth in mid-life, and how to set loving boundaries.

Check out my episode on Dr. Alexandra’s podcast with my husband, Russell!


Community makes all the difference. Join The Sober Mom Life Cafe for 6+ Peer Support meetings each week and a private Facebook group to connect with sober and sober-curious women.

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Today we tackle the dreaded ‘forever’ question as we walk through Chapter 10 of my book The Sober Shift.

You don’t have to answer if giving up alcohol is forever. We don’t ask that about any other lifestyle choice, why do we ask it about this?

Instead, let me offer you a shift. What you thought of it as ‘sober for good’. Make a list of all the things that ‘sober for good’ might mean to you and see if that reframe gives you the support that you need. It did for me.

Community makes all the difference. Join The Sober Mom Life Cafe for 6+ Peer Support meetings each week and a private Facebook group to connect with sober and sober-curious women.

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