Why Moms Turn to Booze to Cope
Big Time Adulting
Caitlin Murray
4.9 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Moms with young kids increased their alcohol consumption by nearly 325% during the pandemic according to a study by RTI International. The term "mommy wine culture" is used to describe moms drinking wine as a way to cope with parenting stresses.
Caitlin welcomes professional chef, sommelier, and life coach Molly Zemek to the podcast to talk about the connection between parental stress and booze consumption. Molly shares her story of how over-drinking and over-eating led her down a painful path of ill health, dissatisfaction, and depression and how she changed her mindset and developed new skills to create a healthier relationship with alcohol WITHOUT taking the pleasure out of a good time. Caitlin and Molly talk about unique circumstances around motherhood that lead to habitual drinking, how you might develop a more moderate attitude to drinking, how over-drinking is connected to over-eating, and how to create a drink plan. This conversation is not about vilifying alcohol but will help you explore your relationship to booze in a more holistic way.
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| 0:00.0 | I was working as a private chef, and then when my kids were toddlers, I left that job to stay at home with them. |
| 0:09.4 | So it was during this period of time when I'm talking about sort of drinking more and eating more, |
| 0:14.1 | that I was 100% just at home taking care of them. |
| 0:17.7 | It stemmed from just the chronic stress of, you know, the physical demands, the emotional demands, the psychological demands of taking care of them. It stemmed from just the chronic stress of, you know, the physical demands, |
| 0:22.0 | the emotional demands, the psychological demands of taking care of kids, feeling like my, |
| 0:27.6 | my idea of what it would be like to be a mom, my expectation was completely different from the |
| 0:33.8 | reality of it. And I think just like, you know, the identity shift that comes along with |
| 0:38.9 | that and not really having any kind of coping mechanisms available to me to manage the emotions |
| 0:46.4 | that I felt. And so it's just very convenient to turn to drinking or to turn to eating. |
| 0:55.9 | Welcome back, everybody, to the Big Time Adelting podcast. |
| 0:59.7 | Thank you so much for being here again today. |
| 1:01.6 | I just so appreciate all you listeners out there. |
| 1:05.8 | Today, I have a guest named Molly Zemick. |
| 1:09.0 | Molly, say hello. |
| 1:10.7 | Hi, Caitlin. Thanks for having me. |
| 1:13.4 | Hi. I'm delighted to have you here today. I want to give everybody a little bit of a backstory |
| 1:18.4 | on how you came to be a guest today, which was that you just reached out to me and proposed a very |
| 1:25.2 | interesting topic, which is all about sort of, I guess, |
| 1:29.3 | Mommy Wine Time is what we were kind of talking about this as. |
| 1:34.4 | And I had done an episode quite a while ago about Mommy Wine Culture and the dangers of |
| 1:42.2 | mommy wine culture. |
| 1:43.6 | And a friend of mine, Emily Lynn Paulson, a sober mom, |
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