Episode 8: Motherhood Is Sobering: Drinking, The Holidays & Mothering, with Angela Garbes

Miranda and Sarah welcome

Angela Garbes

, author of Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change and Like A Mother, to the show this week to talk about drinking, sobriety, and the fuzzy, fine lines that we trace around substance use in motherhood. Though it feels like sober curiosity — or full on sobriety — is on-trend, a recent CDC study indicated that more women than ever are binge drinking and dying from alcohol-related diseases. How should we think about drinking and self-care? What does my choice say about your choice? With holiday gatherings looming, Angela — and a few brilliant listeners — helps us think deeply about how to manage it all with or without drinking to help (or hinder) us.

Links:

• Angela’s Substack

  Donita Reason

• Angela’s Washington Post piece about her sobriety 

• CDC Study about women and alcohol-related mortality

• Atlantic article on Wine Moms 

• Virginia Sole-Smith
  on Sugar Highs

• Sophie Lucido Johnson on Instagram

• Monday N/A Gin

• Studio Null N/A Bubbles