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I'm your host, Caitlin Murray, and I'm here to take it deep with you on adulthood, womanhood, motherhood, and whatever other things end in hood that we can think of.

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Hello, my friends.

And thank you for being here for what I actually feel is a very special episode of the Big Time Adulting podcast, something that I am personally very intrigued by

interested in talking about.

And I have a guest here with me today who sort of specializes on the topic of sobriety,

the sober life, and also very much so how the drinking culture,

specifically in parenthood and motherhood affects us all.

And so I have Emily Paulson here.

She is the author of two books,

Highlight Real, Finding Honesty and Recovery Beyond the Filtered Life,

and a contributor in Addiction Diaries, Stories of Darkness, Hope,

and all the falls in between.

She just told me she just moved with her five children, five, that's right, to Oregon from Seattle.

So we're on different time zones.

But Emily, welcome.

Thank you.

It's so good to be here talking to you.

We were just saying we haven't met face-to-face. I mean, Zoom face to face. But I know. And I actually feel like I kind of know you. And it's funny because that's like the way it works with Instagram and that online life these days. Like you really can get to know a lot of pieces about someone,

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