E254: Secrets, Shame, and Sobriety: Emily Redondo’s Story in Wife Mother Drunk

Sober Friends

Matt J

Alcohol Free, Alcoholics Anonymous, Recovery, Dry January, Spirituality, Sober, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Sobriety, Sober Curious, Addiction, Religion & Spirituality, 12 Steps

4.2 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Send us a text What happens when the picture-perfect life hides a private hell? In this episode of the Sober Friends Podcast, Matt J sits down with Emily Redondo, author of Wife Mother Drunk: An Intergenerational Memoir of Loss and Love. Emily takes us inside her raw and unfiltered journey through addiction, motherhood, and the generational trauma that shaped her story. From pumping and dumping breast milk in rehab to uncovering family secrets that spanned decades, Emily shares what it’s like...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Sober Friends podcast.
0:05.0	My name is Matt Jay.
0:07.1	And if you are in the place for Surbit Curiosity, wanting some recovery, whether you knew or old, you are in the right place.
0:17.9	And today we're joined by Emily Redonda.
0:21.6	She is the author of Wife, Mother, Drunk,
0:25.0	an intergenerational memoir of loss and love.
0:29.1	This is such an awesome story.
0:30.7	And I'll put a link in for the book itself.
0:33.8	But this is about motherhood.
0:34.9	Trauma passed down through generations.
0:37.2	A messy,
0:38.1	imperfect road to recovery. Emily, this was, this was incredible. Your story here. And I think
0:46.2	our listeners are going to love this. Emily, welcome to the sober friends podcast.
0:50.1	Well, thank you so much. I'm happy to be here. This will be great. Yeah, I'm happy to have you here too.
0:56.5	So give us a high level. You, one of the things that I heard in your hook that I'm like,
1:02.5	oh, my freaking God is you walking into rehab with a breast pump and like pumping and dump
1:09.5	milk out of your breasts
1:11.8	that has got booze in it.
1:15.0	That's a, that's a way to kick us off.
1:16.8	Well, yeah, my son was, I think, I mean, he was basically a newborn when I got, I went to rehab with the breast pump. But yeah, that's what I would
1:30.9	kind of do. And as a matter of fact, he was my fourth. So it was like instead of, you know,
1:39.9	hiding booze around the house, which of course I did that. But I was hiding formula because I always breastfed my kids.
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