Hello there, Helians. Today's episode involves discussions of drug and alcohol use. Just a heads up for

everybody listening. Enjoy this great conversation with Suzanne Ware Eye. Hello and welcome to

Fresh Take from What Fresh Hell Laughing in the Face of motherhood. Today I am talking to Suzanne

where I. She is a sobriety influencer and the host of the popular podcast, The Sober

Mom Life. As the founder of the Sober Mom Life Cafe, she has created a supportive digital

community for women to explore their relationships with alcohol and find freedom

in sobriety. Her writing has been featured in Scary Mommy and the Huffington Post. She resides

on the north shore of Chicago with her husband and three kids. And her new book, which we're going to be

talking all about today, is the sober shift, a modern day guide to living

an abundant sober life. Welcome, Suzanne. Yay, thank you for having me. So let's start where

the book starts, which is your waking up after a night of champagne drinking at a pretty

fun sounding party. And tell us about that moment and why that's the beginning of the book.

Yeah.

I wanted to start where I kept coming back to in my first, like, year of sobriety because I

kept coming back to that one moment.

So I had, after a lifetime of like binge drinking in my 20s and then really, you know, nailing moderation in my 30s.

My husband, I went to a fancy pants party and I woke up.

I blacked out for the first time in five years.

And I realized because it was like nine or some ungodly hour that I would never wake up that late,

right, having a three-month-old baby, that I realized it hit me that I had nursed him in a blackout

in the middle of the night. I mean, I don't remember it, but there's just no way he slept through.

My babies all loved to nurse. And that was my last

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