Ep 227 - Cat Sims (Not So Smug Now) on sobriety in motherhood
Hey everyone, welcome to this episode of the Motherkind podcast, the show that's going to help you navigate the massive challenges of life as a modern mother with more community, confidence, clarity and self-awareness.
How do you feel about your relationship with alcohol? That is a big question in our society. It is everywhere and so ingrained in how we live. Drinking has been normalised, especially in Motherhood.
Cat Sims, author of the best-selling book The First Time You Smiled (or was it just wind?) and who you might know from the parenting blog she founded Not So Smug Now and podcast of the same name joins me on this week’s episode.
Cat is a year sober now, which I’m curious about as I am 10 years sober. We both have a shared love of the 12-steps which is a recovery process used in Alcoholics Anonymous and also Al-Anon which is the 12-step group I have been in for over 15 years now.
We chat about her journey to sobriety. How she went from denying there was a problem to proudly calling herself an alcoholic without shame. She shares the moment she knew she had to get help and how it felt bein newly sober when the world around her was still drinking.
I hope however you feel about your drinking you’ll take something from this very beautiful and honest conversation.
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ABOUT Cat Sims
Cat Sims is the founder of the parenting blog Not So Smug Now. Here she talks to us about motherhood and mental health, her journey to sobriety, and the launch of her new book The First Time You Smiled (or was it just wind?)
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