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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