The Weekend Sober

Kezia and Kim are coming at you every weekend sober, every Sunday morning!

This weekend, the ladies discuss their recent parenting woes and their exhausting, chaotic weeks at home with their kids. They each share how they cope with the daily stresses they face and how they have learned how not to turn to alcohol at the end of the day. They discuss how to escape without the bottle with their love of reading and writing.

Check out some of the books they recommend:

Mad Honey
The Urgent Life

The Unhoneymooners

The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power

Stash

Local Woman Missing

Kim and Kezia welcome Meg Geisewite to discuss gray area. Meg wrote Intoxicating Lies: One Woman's Journey to Freedom from Gray Area Drinking

So what is a gray area drinker?

"Gray area drinkers do not have a physical dependency on alcohol; they drink because they want to, not to avoid withdrawal symptoms. They don’t identify as having alcohol use disorder, so they wouldn’t be comfortable in an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and they can stop anytime they want to. The problem is that they either question why they should bother stopping in the first place, knowing they’re not dependent on it, or they often do stop only to pick it up again. Gray area drinkers once thought of themselves as social drinkers but are questioning how “social” drinking is when not in a social setting or when home alone. They also aren’t suffering severe consequences or life-altering effects, so identifying their drinking as problematic doesn’t happen automatically. For this reason, gray area drinking is not a subject being talked about among friends and family and is often a hidden matter, left to one’s own assessment."

Meg Geisewite's Bio:

Meg is an ordinary mom who found herself trapped in the mommy wine culture. She began her sober curious journey in November of 2019 where her love of science led her to discover the real truth about alcohol and its seductive lies.As a best-selling author and speaker, Meg is changing the narrative on the mommy wine culture, the hustle culture, and our pro-drinking culture. In Meg’s debut book, Intoxicating Lies: One Woman's Journey to Freedom from Gray Area Drinking, Meg flips the script on the five most intoxicating lies we tell ourselves about alcohol and the lies we tell ourselves about our worth.Meg resides in Delaware with her husband and two teenage children. Her family has been her rock throughout her alcohol-free journey. You can often find Meg enjoying nature on the beautiful biking and hiking trails of Delaware.

Social Media Links:

Facebook:  Intoxicating Lies: One Woman's Journey to Freedom from Gray Area Drinking | Facebook

Instagram: Meg Geisewite (@intoxicatingliesbook) • Instagram photos and videos

Website: Home | Meg Geisewite | Intoxicating Lies

Free Downloadable PDF for the audience: 5 Common Lies | Meggeisewite (intoxicatinglies.com)

SEX, SEX, and more SEX!! Join Kim, Catherine, Kezia as they talk to Sober Sexpert, Tawny Lara all about sex and intimacy. The group covers all types of taboo and salacious topics such as masturbation, first time sober sexual experiences, dating sober, gender identity and sexual trauma. They even do a deep dive discussion on the ladies of Sex and the City! Tawny also shares about her upcoming book, Dry Humping, set to release this fall. Pre-order Dry Humping today!

Tawny Lara is an NYC-based millennial, also known as The Sober Sexpert. Her book, Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking Up Without Booze, comes out September 19th, 2023. She co-hosts the Signal Award-winning “Best Buddy” podcast, Recovery Rocks, and is mom to a one-eyed cat named Meg White. 

Her writing is featured in Playboy, Men’s Health, Huffington Post, and two essay collections: Sex and the Single Woman and The Addiction Diaries.

References:

Masturbation/meditation podcasts:

https://podtail.com/en/podcast/masturbation-sex-guides-guided-meditation-for-mind/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-39-masturbation-meditation/id1434015288?i=1000437912941

Kim and Kezia welcome guest Ben Tuff to share his unique story of recovery. He eloquently shares his belief of quality over quantity, friendships and his perspective on overcoming adversity.

Instagram:@ben.tuff

Ben Tuff grew up splitting his time between Atlanta, GA and Jamestown, RI. He attended

Colby College where he met his now wife, Gretchen and treasured his times working at a sailing

instructor and boat captain in the British Virgin Islands. Between Jamestown and the BVI, Ben

developed a lifelong appreciation for the ocean. Ben is a lifelong educator and has had the

privilege of working with hundreds of boarding students from across the world. In 2012, Ben

made the life-altering decision to break free of the hold that the addiction to alcohol had on

him. Despite not knowing how to swim, the sport of triathlon arrived quickly in his life. After

seven years of competitive triathlon, Ben made the switch to marathon swimming. After many

crossings from Newport, RI to Jamestown, RI on Save the Bay Swims, Ben throttled it up with

the 12.5 Mile FKCC Swim Around Key West. After that, he couldn’t stop and completed a 21-

mile swim around Jamestown, a 19-mile swim from Block Island to Jamestown, and most

recently swimming the length of Narragansett Bay by swimming 24 miles from Providence, RI to

Jamestown, RI. Esteemed producer, Matt Corliss, chronicled Ben’s journey to sobriety and the

parallels of his recent swim. The film, “Swim Tuff: How I Swam my Way Out of the Bottle” is

projected to be released Spring 2023.

Julia Dzafic from the blog www.lemonstripes.com and Instagram @lemonstripes joins Kim for an intimate chat about early sobriety. Julia never had a rock bottom nor did she struggle with any serious addiction, but she recently decided that alcohol no longer served her. The ladies discuss their personal experiences with anxiety, the drinking culture they find themselves in on a regular basis and the evolution of friendships and alcohol. Julia shares her story with drinking and talks about how her relationship with alcohol began to get complicated during the early pandemic. She started to realize, like most, that her drinking was escalating as she was spending more time at home. If you are sober curious and looking to make an adjustment to your drinking routine, then this episode is for you! Check out Julia's blog, where she writes all about her experiences.  

Kim and Catherine welcome Dina Hannigan, Needham Youth Field Hockey Coach, from Needham, MA. Dina shares her personal connection to recovery and her family's story of addiction. Tune in for a truly moving interview.