#246: Running and Alcohol: Do They Mix?
Another Mother Runner
Feisty Media
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🗓️ 3 February 2017
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
After divulging their monthly #foundchange tally and differing opinions of “La La Land,” Sarah and Molly shift gears to talk about a more serious topic: drinking alcohol. Their first guest is Dorothy Beal (a.k.a. Mile Posts), who opens up about taking part in #DryJanuary—and why she’s not resuming drinking even though the teetotaling month is over. This speedy mother of three talks about why, lately, she was drinking due to emotional exhaustion than physical exhaustion, and how her month of sobriety allowed her to experience unexpected personal growth. Next, the Portland duo are joined by Natalie Hanson, a mother runner with four sons who has been in recovery from alcoholism since 2010. Natalie candidly shares her rapid descent into alcoholism (also known as AUD, alcohol use disorder), and she clarifies the difference between heavy drinking and AUD. She admits why, once she admitted having a problem, one of her mantras became, “I’m here to save my ass, not my face.” Natalie provides numerous suggestions on...
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, just wanted to give you a heads up that the sound quality in our first interview with Mile Post's Dorothy Beale isn't great. |
| 0:07.0 | I apologize for the scratchiness, but I feel her anecdotes and insight are worth putting up with less than ideal sound. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to another mother runner. This is Sarah Bowen Shay. I am joined today by my best |
| 0:27.8 | running friend Molly Williams. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello Sarah. Hello what's it been maybe an hour and a half since we've seen each other maybe two that's right because we ran together today in the cold dark yes |
| 0:37.6 | The sun came up the sun did start to come up we have started to notice a change with that the days are getting a little longer and when we finish up at 7 a.m. |
| 0:47.2 | It's starting to show promise of a day. |
| 0:49.4 | And boy, Miller wants to get inside. |
| 0:51.8 | I tell you, Alex, go upstairs and let him in the back door I think. |
| 0:54.4 | Don't jump over any wires. All right he'll love you forever. So all right Molly when I got |
| 1:01.2 | home I texted you you had some homework to do. |
| 1:03.5 | Yep, it was time to tally the January totals. |
| 1:06.3 | It is, because it's February 1st, so drum roll. |
| 1:09.4 | I know you've got more than me. |
| 1:11.7 | You got out more in the daylight than I did so go ahead you go first. |
| 1:15.3 | And I also want to point out that we had a lot of the snow and ice as I've talked about on |
| 1:19.6 | the podcast. So this was all uncovered when the snow and ice melt. It was all uncovered but also it was covered up for numerous days. |
| 1:26.0 | Yes, and I don't want to spoil the surprise so go ahead. Yes, okay. All right. I found $3.89. Oh my gosh. You know I found $1.55. Oh, that's great. |
| 1:39.3 | And yes. And I went and looked at the January my monthly totals for last year and the year before because that's when I've started |
| 1:46.3 | totaling them up, you know, every month. |
| 1:48.2 | And it is the most money I have found in any one month, minus the $10 bill I found. Yeah. Yeah. Okay well Molly I can beat I can even beat that stat I didn't start keeping monthly |
| 1:58.3 | tallies until last year but in all of 2015, I found 388. |
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