I decided to stop drinking about 2 years ago. It slowly stopped resonating with me but after explant surgery, I knew drinking was no longer for my highest and best good. In 1999-2017 alcohol related deaths among women in the US rose 85% and this made me ask myself, what are we doing? Somewhere in the midst of women’s liberation and working mom life, we have somehow seemed to normalize women abusing their bodies with alcohol. There have been countless memes depicting women unable to cope with life and motherhood drinking out of gigantic wine glasses or doing Yoga poses with taking sips of wine in between. We have somehow allowed this to become a running joke, but is it? Hospitals have seen a 30-50% increase in alcoholism in women and the largest uptick is in women under 40. Alcohol affects our emotional health, physical health, spiritual health and the health of our families. My purpose of this episode is to educate, inform and if you are a chronic or even an occasional drinker, to simply begin to think about your relationship to alcohol.