Hi everyone. Welcome to this episode of Motherkind. It's me, your host Zoe Blaski. We are sponsored by Stoker.

This is the show that's going to give you a new toolkit for modern motherhood. Today is a solo episode with me because I want to talk about something

that I don't often and that is sobriatory because I am 10, nearly 11 years sober, which I can

barely actually believe and it's sober October. So I'm guessing a few of you might be thinking about doing it, or because

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So I remember it like it was yesterday.

The very clear thought I had, which was this isn't working for me anymore.

I was actually on honeymoon, believe it or not. I had been flip-flopping back and forth with

drinking, stopping for a bit, then drinking again. But at the same time, so this was 11 years ago,

so I was in my, I think I was 30, I had just started therapy and I was starting to like myself

after two decades of not really valuing or

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