Description

Writer and speaker Samantha Perkins joins Lorilee to discuss her journey to living an alcohol-free life. They explore the link between alcohol and anxiety, and share their own experiences with sobriety and the pressures and stigmas that surround drinking culture.

Samantha is the author of Alive AF: One Anxious Mom’s Journey to Becoming Alcohol Free and speaks about the impact that alcohol had on her life and mental health. 

Highlights:

• On Samantha’s playlist: “Rhythm Nation” - Janet Jackson
• How stereotypical portrayals of drinkers affect our own perceptions of alcoholism
• The connection between anxiety and alcohol
• Coping with childbirth, parenthood, and exhaustion
• Making happy hour any hour and living alcohol free
• Handling the holidays without alcohol
• One tool for our G&G toolbox

Mentioned in this episode:

• Alive AF
• We Are The Luckiest
• Quit Like A Womanby Holly Whitaker
• This Naked Mind