Erin - Living for 4 PM, Regrets and Sex & The City
“You’ve done scarier things before. Having a baby exit out of your body is way scarier than quitting alcohol for a month. Please just give it a month. Your life will totally change and you’ll be like whoa. Just give it a try”. Erin heard whispers since 2020 “You need to stop drinking. You need to stop drinking” but like most of us excused them away. In January of 2023 gave the ole “Dry January” a try and has been sober ever since. She started sharing her journey on tiktok and has grown to 20K followers showing the curiosity we are starting to have in sobriety. In honor of Mother’s Day we spent a lot of time talking about the intertwine of mommy and booze culture and why momming is so much easier sober. Erin is vulnerable and honest and hilarious and adorable. A quadruple threat. She shares how after the births of her two daughters, fresh out of delivery, she was ready for that beer and it didn't’ seem weird because it was so normalized in mom culture. How shame and not enoughness and the insecurities of being a mom was the big driver to medicating with booze which in turn made it so much harder. She shares the ways she is a better mom when she is sober and how she can’t believe she thought she was getting away with it thinking her kids didn't see or feel a difference. We talk about the spectrum of alcoholism and share the one tip that we both leaned on when we started our journey, making sobriety the one thing. For more info on Sober·ish Uprising follow me on instagram @soberishuprising and @hollykrivo. Follow Erin on Instagram and Tiktok, @thehomebodyhustler. It would mean the world to me if you subscribe, leave a review, and share this podcast with your friends, co-workers, and families. This will help spread the message of finding freedom from alcohol on our terms and allows those who are ready to find this podcast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/soberishuprising/message