🗣️ “I drank alcohol every day—quitting made me see the damage”
After my second child was born prematurely, and I was diagnosed with postpartum depression, my alcohol intake increased. I was drinking a lot, but not talking about the fact that I was depressed and feeling totally disconnected from my baby.
Instead of dealing with my emotions, I put on this perfect hostess persona, and from 2018 to 2020, my house was a revolving door of parties. I was out all the time, I didn't want to be with the kids—I was numbing my emotions. It wasn't a rock bottom moment—nobody told me I needed to stop drinking—but I decided then that I needed to pump the brakes and figure out how to feel better.
I dove into learning about what alcohol was doing to me, why it was ruining my sleep and making me more depressed and anxious. I would spend my days learning about the impact drinking has on us, through books, podcasts, and webinars. I found myself really enjoying chatting with women and encouraging them, and realized that I could actually do something that involved that full-time. So at the end of that first year, I applied to be a sobriety coach.