The Wine O'Clock Myth: The Truth About Women and Alcohol: The Truth You Need to Know about Women and Alcohol

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I’m a woman, and I hear from women constantly. I know the effect it’s having on us, particularly emotionally, and it devastates me.” Yeah, although 9 years after my last drink, I was like, I can’t keep saying, well, let’s see equivalent of a bottle of wine. But I do that.

Yeah. And there is a transition and getting used to that. There’s no denying it, you know, it does take a few months to just get used to feeling your feelings. That’s so cliché, but it’s true. And learn strategies. But the other thing I think it’s worth mentioning is, you know, in terms of socializing, going out and having fun. Yes. Yeah. And one last thing I know, we talked about really consciously taking a look at the Marketing messages that you’re surrounded by taking a look at how much of that is funded by the alcohol companies how much they’re targeting women, I’m you know, see bottles of wine that are that are, you know, mommy’s happy hour or mommy’s timeout, or, you know, all those things. And we talked about editing your social media feed, which I feel like, is so critical and diving into sober support communities that tell the other side, both the good of not alcohol, not having alcohol in your life, as well as the truth that it is not harmless. Do you have any other piece of advice for women who are really trying to get out of really buying into that mummy white culture that wine is the magic elixir? Yeah, and that’s what we need. Because as we’ve said, you know, throughout the environment we live in outwardly, doesn’t tell you that stuff that just doesn’t and all you’re seeing is happy people drinking. You genuinely think that everyone’s having a great time, and you’re the only one who’s not. And that’s just not true. It’s a madness. I mean, I just get frustrated sometimes because I just get frustrated because I think this is crazy land, crazy land and harmful crazy land. But I have to kind of calm myself down and just accept that we don’t always get everything right. And at the moment, this is just a big problem. That’s one day that we fixed. But right now, we do live in crazy land. And we have to somehow remind ourselves, we’re not crazy. Lotta wrote her second book Mrs. D Is Going Within– touching on mindfulness and the tools she uses to navigate life from an emotionally healthy place after putting down the wine bottle.It occupies a unique place of privilege, one in which it is almost universally positioned as good, fun, harmless and required for a good time, despite the fact that it negatively impacts the physical and mental health of millions of people. So, we’ve just, there’s a combination of factors that have led to this crazy situation. And the bottom line, a lot of people are struggling and they’re struggling in silence, because they feel they are personally flawed. You blame yourself, and that’s what breaks my heart. Because, you know, I’m not a bad person, you’re not a bad person, we’re not weak. We know people that got addicted to something that’s addictive. So, what you were writing, resonates and helps women for years and years and years. And I just wanted to thank you for that because it’s important. So if you walk around our environment, there are no outward signs of the danger inherent in this product like, and, you know, the problem is that the industry has gotten so big and so powerful, and has such access to our policymakers, you know, through lobbyists and what have you. And they’re so good at what they do, at making themselves look like they hear, you know, they’re always putting out information about how to moderate how to how to limit your drink sizes, all the stuff that looks good on the surface. But actually, it’s disingenuous, because, as we said before, this is an addictive drug that many people can’t moderate.

And yeah, and that’s the other problem I have with the statistics that show, you know the number of people that are drinking to hazardous levels. It’s people. It’s self-reported, and often people don’t tell the truth. I mean, I didn’t if I was ever asked, and so I really believe the problem is bigger than what is being reported. But you know, you’re right about there being things behind, you know, why some people get addicted and others, you know, you mentioned things like mental health issues.Each week, I’ll bring you tools, lessons and conversations to help you drink less and live more. I’ll teach you how to navigate our drinking obsessed culture without a bus, how to sit with your emotions, when you’re lonely or angry, frustrated or overwhelmed, how to self soothe without a drink, and how to turn the decision to stop drinking from your worst case scenario to the best decision of your life.