Sobriety Provides Room for So Much More with Kelley Kitley
The Sober Mom Life
Suzanne Warye
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Kelley Kitley grew up in a world where alcohol wasn’t only normalized… it was the family business. As a kid, she lived above her family’s bar and she could not wait until she was old enough to experience what this drinking thing was all about. Now a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of sobriety under her belt, Kelley helps women navigate their own relationships with sobriety, and she gets it.
We talk about the ways in which alcohol was central to Kelley’s family life growing up, her attempts to ‘dodge the bullet’ of addiction by studying psychology, the mental strain of moderation, her experiences in and opinions of AA, her excellent memoir MY Self, and what it was like to go public with her personal story as a psychologist.
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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. |
| 1:33.1 | Kelly Kittley, welcome to the Sober Mom Life podcast. It is so good to be here. |
| 1:39.3 | I know. I was on your podcast and we had such a good chat. You dropped something in that conversation that I was like, what? I need to know more. And so then I was like, okay, I have to have you on here. |
| 1:44.1 | So let's just |
| 1:45.7 | start. Before I ask you all about that, tell me, I want to get into your work. I want to get into |
| 1:51.2 | your book. And then the movie that you and your husband made on part of the book. But first, |
| 1:57.6 | can we talk about you grew up in Chicago, right? |
| 2:01.6 | Above my parents' bar in Lincoln Park. |
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