Jen Butler, MOM, REDISCOVERED: My Midlife Breakup with Drinking and Diet Culture
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.5 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Zibby interviews author and speaker Jennifer Butler about her honest and moving memoir, MOM, REDISCOVERED: My Midlife Breakup with Drinking and Diet Culture. Jen opens up about her journey from “wine mom” to mid-life unraveling to self-acceptance and self-compassion, sharing how she broke free from gray-area drinking, diet culture, and the pressure to be the perfect mom. She and Zibby also reflect on their own friendship and the full-circle moment that brought them together, from a Totally Booked event to publication.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Totally Booked with Zibby. Formerly, moms don't have time to read books. In my daily show, I interview today's latest, best-selling, buzziest, or underrated authors and story creators, whose work I think is worth your time. As a bookstore owner, publisher, author, and obviously podcaster, I get a comprehensive |
| 0:24.0 | look at everything that's coming out and spend my time curating the best books so you don't |
| 0:29.3 | have to. |
| 0:30.3 | Stay in the know, get insider insights, and connect with guests like I do every single day. |
| 0:36.2 | For more information, go to zibbimedia.com and follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens. |
| 0:44.5 | Jen Butler is the author of Mom Rediscovered, my midlife breakup with drinking and diet culture. |
| 0:50.5 | Jen is a writer, speaker, alcohol-free coach for women, and fitness instructor who believes wholeheartedly in the transformative power of sharing stories. |
| 0:58.7 | A mom of two middle schoolers, she draws from her own journey through motherhood, midlife, and perimenopause to encourage women to practice self-compassion and forge meaningful connections, |
| 1:08.2 | empowering them to take up space as their amazing, authentic selves |
| 1:11.6 | in their families, friendships, careers, and communities. She lives with her family in Westchester |
| 1:16.0 | County, New York. Welcome, Jen. Thank you so much for coming on Totally Booked to talk about |
| 1:21.0 | your book, Mom Rediscovered, my midlife breakup with drinking and diet culture. Congratulations. |
| 1:27.4 | Thank you, Zivvi. Thank you so much for |
| 1:29.0 | having me here. Yay. Okay, so we, you and I have quite the backstory at this point, |
| 1:34.3 | even though it hasn't been that much time. It's been intense. Let's talk about it. In a good way. |
| 1:41.3 | In a good way. In a good way. Nobody panic. All in the good. All good. |
| 1:45.6 | So I first met you in person when you came to totally booked live. Was that the event? No, no, no. It was before that. |
| 1:52.3 | It was new year, new chapter. That's right. New Year. January, 24. Yes, exactly. And you were so |
| 1:57.6 | amazing. And you wrote this fabulous piece about it afterwards, which I absolutely loved. |
| 2:02.6 | And I was like, oh my gosh, you're such a good writer. |
| 2:04.6 | Who are you? |
| 2:07.0 | So how did you end up even at that event and take us from there to hear? |
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