Parents! It's Never Too Late to Give Up
Sober Awkward
Victoria Vanstone
4.8 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In this week's retrospective episode we are tapping back into some of Lucy's wisdom from the sixth episode of Sober Awkward.
Lucy is all too aware of the negative impact her drinking had on her two daughters but by making the decision to go sober, she is not only undoing a lot of the damage but, she inspiring them as she does it.
If you are a parent and fear that your drinking habits have affected your relationship with your kids. It is never too later to give up!
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think it had a big impact on them, Lucy? |
| 0:10.0 | I do think it did. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm not as negative as I thought it would have. |
| 0:16.0 | And I'll tell you why it's not as negative as I thought it would have. It's because they've seen me |
| 0:21.8 | change my life, turn it around and give up. And I think that by doing that, it's had such a positive |
| 0:29.4 | impact on them. I mean, I know it wasn't good to drink for all of those years. And certainly when |
| 0:35.2 | they were younger, they weren't impacted very much because I was so |
| 0:38.9 | highly functioning. They didn't realize it. Now that they're teens, they were more aware of it. |
| 0:44.5 | And also my ex-husband, who they spent quite a lot of time with, he's also a big drinker. |
| 0:49.0 | So it was like, you know, not only have I got an addictive personality, he possibly has as well. |
| 0:53.3 | These kids are watching us both drink. |
| 0:55.6 | You know, someone somewhere here has got to change this pattern for them. |
| 0:59.8 | The messaging there is the wrong message. |
| 1:03.3 | Very wrong. |
| 1:04.3 | The signal that's being pumped out of that situation is not the right message. |
| 1:09.5 | It was totally wrong. |
| 1:10.6 | And someone had to do something. |
| 1:12.8 | Yeah. Had to break that cycle that they were living through which was that it's okay to drink. |
| 1:17.2 | And it got to the point where they, if I was on the phone to them, they could recognize in my |
| 1:23.4 | voice if I'd had one drink. I'd now just think it was your weird oil that you got inside your mouth. |
| 1:30.1 | That is what I sounded like it's an ulcer. |
| 1:32.6 | I don't even want to think about it. |
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