I drink to have fun and socialize, I tell myself as I try to rationalize why I don't have to quit

drinking. Except fun and socializing looks like getting drunk on the couch with my husband

and then staying up alone and drinking more. It's much easier to say I'm a wine connoisseur

who enjoys the taste instead of I can't cope with my emotions.

In this episode, I'm discussing drinking motives and why we drink.

By the end, you'll have a better understanding of what alcohol is or was doing for you.

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Welcome back to the Soberpowered podcast. I'm your host Jill, and this is the first episode in a series about drinking motives. So I hope that you will check back for the rest of the month and get the rest of the episodes and make sure that you follow the podcast so you don't miss them. When we talk about drinking motives,

I don't mean surface level reasons, like because it was Friday or because everyone else was.

I mean the deeper why. Why you reach for a drink when you were stressed or why a party felt

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