Breaking a Generational Cycle with Real Sober Mom Julie

The Sober Mom Life

Suzanne Warye

Parenting, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Mental Health

4.8 • 926 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Real Sober Mom Julie grew up in a family where, throughout the years, alcohol became increasingly present. As a young adult, her mother’s relationship with alcohol had become so difficult for Julie to bear that she asked her mother to leave one day after she came to visit her.

As Julie became a mom, alcohol found its way more deeply into her own life through Mommy Wine Culture. While she never experienced a ‘rock bottom’, something started to feel increasingly off. She felt like an bad mom and less and less like herself.

After opening up to her husband about her challenge it all came into focus - she did not want to be a mom who drinks, and she did not want her daughters to have a mom who drank.

Quitting, however, was a challenge. Julie attempted dry Januarys and dry weeks, but she could never make it very far. Community ended up being the game changer that Julie needed. She has now achieved 10 months of consistent sobriety with regular support from the Sober Mom Life Cafe!

Julie is so happy to be able to give her daughters a childhood with a sober mom, and she is so grateful to the community of other sober moms who have made her feel supported in the way she needs to maintain her sobriety!

Are you looking for community in sobriety? Join us in The Sober Mom Life Cafe! For $40/month, you’ll get access to 12 weekly peer support meetings, the exclusive Cafe social feed, our monthly book club, happy hour, the chance to share your story on The Real Sober Moms, and more! Get one week free at this link!

Pre-orders are available for my book! Sober Shift: A Modern Day Guide to Living an Abundant Sober Life hits shelves on September 30th, 2025. Pre-order your copy here: https://suzannewarye.com/book

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to the sober mom life podcast. I'm your host, Suzanne, of My Kind of Sweet and The Sober Mom Life on Instagram.
0:12.9	If you are a mama who has questioned your relationship with alcohol at times, if you're wondering if maybe it's making motherhood harder.
0:21.4	This is for you.
0:23.0	I will be having candid, honest, funny conversations with other moms who have also thought,
0:29.3	hmm, maybe motherhood is better without alcohol.
0:33.2	Is it possible?
0:34.5	We'll chat and we'll talk about all things sobriety and how we've found freedom in sobriety.
0:41.3	I don't consider myself an alcoholic.
0:43.9	You don't have to either.
0:45.8	And maybe life is brighter without alcohol.
0:49.1	I hope you will join us on this journey, and I'm so excited to get started.
0:57.7	Hello. will join us on this journey and I'm so excited to get started. Hello and welcome to the Real Sober Mom Chats on the Sober Mom Life podcast.
1:02.7	You guys know these stories are near and dear to my heart.
1:05.9	These are stories from women who are in the Sober Mom Life community, in the Sober Mom
1:10.5	Life Cafe. And for a lot of them,
1:13.1	it's the first time telling their story. These are real moms. It's like the real housewives,
1:17.3	but without the booze. Don't forget if you want to share your story, come and join us. You get so
1:23.6	many meetings, plus our monthly book club. You get your own feed and chat where you get to
1:29.5	connect with the ladies and just so many other amazing things come and join us we would love
1:35.0	to have you and enjoy the real sober moms okay julie welcome to the Sober Mom Life podcast.
1:50.3	Thanks for having me, Suzanne. I'm excited to be here.
1:53.3	I'm so excited. And you said I get to meet you in like a couple months at the retreat. So I'm so excited for that too.
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