0:00.0	You're listening to the Recovery Happy Hour, where we talk about life beyond the bottle and what happens
0:24.7	after we get sober. I'm your host Tricia. Thanks so much for listening today.
0:31.8	I'm going to be honest. I am angry today. I'm angry. Being able to feel
0:38.9	anger is kind of new to me and allowing myself the permission to feel anger is even newer.
0:47.4	Some of this is because of just recovering from alcohol addiction in general and just
0:52.0	being able to feel now. But some of it is
0:54.8	because of an idea that I've bought into for my entire adult life that women aren't
1:00.1	supposed to be angry.
1:02.5	We're supposed to swallow that feeling
1:04.2	in between sips of wine.
1:06.4	And then we're just supposed to continue that process
1:09.1	so that we don't feel anything uncomfortable.
1:11.8	Just sip and smile and pretend everything is fine, right?
1:16.4	If I had to title a book about my life from birth to age 35,
1:21.0	it would be called, don't worry about me everything's fine.
1:25.6	Everything is not fine today and that's okay.
1:30.8	In fact that's a good thing because that means I am waking up.
1:35.0	I started talking early in this podcast specifically in episode 3 about mommy wine culture
1:41.0	and I mentioned an Instagram account I followed
1:44.6	called Tell Better Stories 2018.
1:48.5	It's an account that looks at the way alcohol
1:50.6	is marketed, specifically towards women, takes these messages out of the context of
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