Wine Mom Culture
Coffee + Crumbs Podcast
Ashlee Gadd
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
What is it like to be sober in a society that glamorizes and makes light of drinking so often, especially in correlation with motherhood? Today we’re chatting with Dana Bowman—a mother in recovery—who shares how she once found validation in “Wine Mom” culture, before hitting rock bottom in 2014. Through the honest lens of her own experience, Dana offers some alternative ways we can approach conversations, hospitality, and even social media posts more empathetically, to support those struggling with alcohol use.
If you think you or a loved one is struggling with alcohol use, we hope this episode meets you with grace and encourages you to take the next right step toward health and healing.
This show is brought to you ad-free by our generous and loving Patreon community. If you’d like to support the work we do for as little as $1/month, head to Patreon.com/coffeeandcrumbs to join the party (where we host discussions after every episode, offer bonus content, and more!). For show notes, go to coffeeandcrumbs.net/podcast.
For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out the stories at Coffee + Crumbs.
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| 0:00.0 | We believe motherhood is a gift and art not a science. |
| 0:09.1 | We believe it takes a village to raise our kids and that motherhood is better when we stick |
| 0:13.5 | together. |
| 0:14.8 | Most of all, we believe motherhood is holy work. |
| 0:18.9 | At the core of our show, we want you to feel safe, known, encouraged and loved. |
| 0:24.4 | This is The Coffee & Crumbs Podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to The Coffee & Crumbs Podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | Before we jump into our conversation today, Jill and I wanted to lay a quick foundation for |
| 0:38.6 | this episode. I'm going to be honest and tell you this topic has been on my heart for a while, |
| 0:43.7 | but I've been nervous about talking about it on the podcast. Anytime we talk about hard or |
| 0:49.1 | sensitive issues in such a public forum, we always run the risk of being misunderstood or |
| 0:55.1 | having the conversation itself be misconstrued. So I say all of that in part to simply ask for |
| 1:00.9 | your grace in our conversation today. Yes, and we have no intentions whatsoever to shame anyone. |
| 1:07.8 | And as always, we want to remind you that we are friends having conversation. We're not |
| 1:13.0 | experts giving prescriptive advice. So our hope is that you would leave this episode feeling safe, |
| 1:19.2 | known, encouraged and loved, even though the topic is heavy. While we're talking about alcohol |
| 1:25.4 | and addiction today, what we're really talking about is mommy drinking culture. And I'm sure you've |
| 1:31.6 | seen these products around. You might even own some of them. We're talking about the mommy juice |
| 1:36.4 | wine glass and the mama needs wine t-shirts and hats and totes and tumblers. I mean, these days |
| 1:43.2 | you can buy wine with a label that says it's a pump and dump kind of day. And if you search |
| 1:48.7 | mom wine on Etsy, 64,000 results pop up. Wow. Something I've really noticed since I've become a mom |
| 1:57.8 | is this narrative that motherhood is so hard and so overwhelming. The only way to survive it is |
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