The Wine Mom Epidemic & The Secrets We Hide | Ericka Andersen
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Turning Point USA
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🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Is “wine mom” culture quietly breaking Christian women? 🍷💔
Ericka Andersen hid her addiction for years. Now she’s 5 years sober and exposing the truth behind the smiles and sippy cups. What if the thing helping you cope is actually keeping you stuck?
Motherhood, shame, faith, and freedom — this one’s raw and real. 💗
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⭐️ Ericka Andersen
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| 0:00.0 | Is there an epidemic of Christian suburban moms in particular secretly struggling with alcoholism? |
| 0:06.5 | This was my story. There I was with wine every single night justifying it because the world |
| 0:12.6 | told me, this is what you do. You deserve it, mama. You know, you never want to say you're glad you relapsed, |
| 0:17.0 | but at the same time, it really was an important lesson for me and something that I can share with others. |
| 0:22.2 | Like, it's okay to mess up. It doesn't mean that you failed. It just means that you're imperfect. |
| 0:26.0 | It just means that you're imperfect. There is a big secret amongst many suburban Christian mothers. |
| 0:55.0 | Many are battling alcoholism. |
| 0:57.7 | This was the case for my guest today, Erica Anderson, who is now five years sober. |
| 1:02.0 | As a Christian mom of two living in Indianapolis, it was her biggest fear for her small group at church to know her secret until she finally got the courage. |
| 1:09.8 | Now, Erica has authored several |
| 1:11.6 | pieces on the growing epidemic of Christian wine moms for publications like The Wall Street |
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| 1:43.7 | Please welcome Erica Anderson to Culture Apothecary. |
| 1:49.7 | Is there an epidemic of Christian suburban moms in particular secretly struggling with alcoholism? |
| 1:56.6 | I think that there might be, and most people don't know about it. |
| 1:59.7 | What I say about that is when you look at the statistics for the number of women struggling with alcohol in general in the American public, you can sort of blueprint those statistics right onto the church and they're going to be very similar in lining up. |
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