The Problem with Mommy Wine Culture.
Wellness As A Way of Life
English - February 02, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 9.17 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Health & Fitness Alternative Health Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
How did women and alcohol become an feminist tradegy?
What does it mean to be sober curious?
On this week’s episode of Energetically You, Megan Swan touches on a controversial topic- mommy wine culture.
Many women have fallen hook-line-and-sinker for the powerful ad campaigns that have taught us that real, powerful, fun, women and essentially mothers drink. Drinking is a power move. Drinking is self-care. Wine is essential to humour and motherhood.
“For most women [sobriety] is life changing in terms of their overall physical health, mental wellness and their ability to cope.”
The top questions we will be asking ourselves throughout the episode include:
Is alcohol holding you back even though you don’t have a ‘drinking problem’? Why is wine not self-care? How does alcohol affect our sleep? How does alcohol affect our energy?
Resources we mentioned:
Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, Ann Dowsett Johnston, Harper Wave, 2013.
“For women, heavy drinking has been normalized. That’s dangerous.” by Kimberly Kindy & Dan Keating, December 23, 2016, Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-women-heavy-drinking-has-been-normalized-thats-dangerous/2016/12/23/
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