How did women and alcohol become an feminist tradegy?
What does it mean to be sober curious?
On this week’s episode of Energetically You, Megan Swan touches on a controversial topic- mommy wine culture.
Many women have fallen hook-line-and-sinker for the powerful ad campaigns that have taught us that real, powerful, fun, women and essentially mothers drink. Drinking is a power move. Drinking is self-care. Wine is essential to humour and motherhood.
“For most women [sobriety] is life changing in terms of their overall physical health, mental wellness and their ability to cope.”
The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:
Is alcohol holding you back even though you don’t have a ‘drinking problem’?
Why is wine not self-care?
How does alcohol affect our sleep?
How does alcohol affect our energy?
Resources we mentioned:
Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, Ann Dowsett Johnston, Harper Wave, 2013.
“For women, heavy drinking has been normalized. That’s dangerous.” by Kimberly Kindy & Dan Keating, December 23, 2016, Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-women-heavy-drinking-has-been-normalized-thats-dangerous/2016/12/23/
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