I am talking to four of the six women who created and run Sober Mom Collective which is an online space for moms working at staying sober. They give us all the details of this magical community and then, they each share their own sober story.
Leah shares her story about the pressure of ‘mommy wine culture’ and the importance of having a village of women/moms to support her in sobriety.
Lainy opens up about black-out drinking and how you don’t have to hit rock bottom to quit drinking, you don’t need a reason, you can just stop. Then she found her people with other moms going through the same thing.
Kathryn’s story starts from childhood where she saw sobriety as deprivation. Then her intense, binge drinking became part of her identity until she started noticing little cues about non drinkers which eventually led her to removing alcohol from her life.
Jen was a party girl, working in a field that was alcohol fueled and couldn’t find an off switch to her drinking, until she found her way, first through AA and eventually through an online moms group.
SHOW NOTES:
The team of six women who run this organization are: Leah Fulton Eng, Lainy Wernecke, Kathryn Sabella, Jen Ciccotto, Heather Taylor and Mary Schiavoni
You can find more about Sober Mom Collective here:
SMC: IG: @sobermomcollective
Website: sobermomcollective.com
And about each of them here:
Leah Fulton Eng: @holisticcoachleah on Instagram
Lainy Warnecke @wild_lainy on Instagram
Kathryn Sabella: @kathryn.authentic.af on Instagram
Jen Ciccotto: @bklyn_bookworm
Heather Taylor @balancedbymom on Instagram
Mentions:
Recovery Happy Hour PodcastScary Mommy Blog
Sober Curious by Ruby Warrington
Book club guests: Laura Cathcart Robbins and Jessica Guerrieri.