Episode 315: The Dirty Truth About Social Drinking: Why 'Everything in Moderation' Is BS with Hadley Sorensen
Hadley Sorensen didn’t stop drinking four years ago because everything fell apart. She quit because something felt off, even though from the outside, her drinking looked completely normal.
That intuitive hit led her to do what only 1% of people ever do – write the book she couldn’t find: The Dirty Truth on Social Drinking: “Everything in Moderation” and Other BS.
Hadley talks about how she is dismantling the toxic narratives around “mommy wine juice culture” which can keep you stuck in shame, and the belief that you need a dramatic reason to quit. You don’t need to keep doing something that makes you feel like crap just because everyone else is.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Why moderate alcohol use can leave you feeling out of alignment and stuck in shame
The surprising discoveries Hadley made about her friendships since ditching alcohol
Why Hadley lost followers when she stopped being the “wine-loving fitness mom”
Why she wrote the book she desperately needed and couldn’t find anywhere
How mommy wine juice culture is evolving from sippy cups to perimenopause jokes
REFLECTION QUESTION
Reflect on the societal and personal narratives you’ve believed (like “everything in moderation” or needing alcohol to be fun). Where did these stories come from, and are they still relevant? - Hadley Sorensen
“And I let these drinking incidents — (I had a tendency to black out), I let them keep happening over and over and over again, for decades, like so many of us do, before finally really waking up one morning with a hangover and thinking, wait, maybe I don't have to feel like this anymore. This isn't some requirement of adulthood that I have to keep doing this to myself. And so that morning I decided it was going to be my last hangover.” - Hadley Sorensen
“From the beginning, I was journaling a lot. I was writing for myself. I was processing this decision to stop drinking through writing because that's what I've always done. And probably about 6 months in, I decided, I think I'm going to write a book. I'd read so much quit lit and it was so helpful for me. But most of the books out there at the time were those rock-bottom stories, which are so important, but I just didn't see myself in them as much. And I thought, well, I can write a book for the people who felt like I did.” - Hadley Sorensen
LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED
Learn more about Hadley Sorensen’s book, The Dirty Truth on Social Drinking.
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