It’s Not You, It’s the Alcohol with Mary Alice Stephens
The Sober Mom Life
Suzanne Warye
4.8 • 926 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Giving up alcohol originally felt to Mary Alice Stephens like leaving so many things behind - ‘Fun Mary’, date nights with her husband, friendships that centered around wine, and a father who expressed his love through alcohol. Now fourteen years sober, Mary Alice can look back and confidently say that the leap was so worth facing her fears.
Mary is the author of the new book Uncorked: A Memoir of Letting Go and Starting Over. In the book and in our conversation she shares the wisdom she has gleaned from almost a decade and a half of sobriety, the things she still reaches for in her sobriety toolkit to stay confidently sober in her current life, and wonderful advice on how to navigate your first sober holiday season.
The biggest lightbulb moment for Mary was the realization that her behavior wasn’t ‘her’. It was the alcohol. Placing the blame squarely where it deserved to be gave Mary the freedom to make a different choice, and she is not looking back!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Shana. |
| 0:01.1 | And I'm Laura. |
| 0:21.4 | And we're best friends who got pregnant at the exact same time. Listen to our podcast, Big Fat Positive, and follow along as we journey through pregnancy and into motherhood with weekly check-ins starting at eight weeks pregnant. We share hilarious true stories, genius mom hacks, advice from expert guests, and more. Our pregnancy and parenting podcast is smart and informative, but it also feels like you're hanging with your mom friends. If you're looking for a show that makes you laugh |
| 0:25.1 | and feel seen, big fat positive is for you. New episodes drop every Monday, wherever you get your |
| 0:30.0 | podcasts. 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. |
| 0:43.9 | 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, this is for you. |
| 0:54.0 | I will be having candid, honest, funny conversations with other moms who have also thought, |
| 1:00.4 | hmm, maybe motherhood is better without alcohol. |
| 1:04.3 | Is it possible? |
| 1:05.7 | We'll chat. |
| 1:06.7 | And we'll talk about all things sobriety and how we've found freedom in sobriety. |
| 1:12.4 | I don't consider myself an alcoholic. |
| 1:15.1 | You don't have to either. |
| 1:16.9 | Maybe life is brighter without alcohol. |
| 1:20.2 | I hope you will join us on this journey and I'm so excited to get started. |
| 1:27.0 | Hello, welcome back to the Sober Mom Life podcast. |
| 1:29.7 | I'm so glad you came back. |
| 1:30.9 | If you're listening to this, the day this comes out, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. |
| 1:35.4 | I hope you made time to feel grateful for all of the things that you have in your sobriety |
| 1:41.8 | or your sober curiosity before you dove headfirst into the Black Friday |
| 1:48.3 | and the Cyber Monday sales. That said, I also did share a Cyber Week sale roundup post that I'll link |
| 1:55.4 | in the show notes. I'm excited for today's episode. We have Mary Alice Stevens. She is the author of her new sobriety memoir. It's called Uncorked, a memoir of letting go and starting over. Mary has been sober for 14 years, which is incredible. And I love talking with women who have been sober longer than I have. And they tell me all about the brightness |
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