Drunk-ish - A Sobriety Podcast · Stefanie Wilder-Taylor

Good Hair, No Bra and Generational Trauma with Vicki Moser

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Vicki tells the meeting, “I have four days,” after drinking liquid THC and refusing to hide it.

1. Drunk-ish frames Stephanie Wilder-Taylor and Vicki Moser around Vicki’s pain pill addiction and sobriety story. 2. Stephanie is the host and author of Drunkish, and Vicki is her friend, which matters because the episode stays personal and direct. 3. The episode asks how childhood anxiety, caregiving, and pill use turned into a sobriety practice that Vicki can actually maintain. 4. Vicki says she was “always very sensitive” as a child and remembers “middle schmertz” after worrying about her parents going on vacation. 5. She describes being “painfully shy,” very tall for her age, and willing to take an F rather than speak in class. 6. Her father is described as a battered kid who was disconnected, while her mother was the parent who let the children tell her “anything, no questions asked.” 7. At 15, Vicki’s mother went in for a hysterectomy and came out with stage four ovarian cancer at age 37. 8. Vicki says her father told her on the way to the hospital that he was going to leave her mother, then stayed only for a while after the diagnosis. 9. She says her mother later lost her insurance, underwent radiation, ended up with a colostomy bag, and eventually lived to 61. 10. Vicki connects that caretaking environment to her daughter Emily’s anxiety and to the family’s later habit of talking openly about feelings. 11. Vicki says she did not love or hate alcohol, but Vicodin felt like “taking a upper without all the bad side effects.” 12. She describes a neighbor who offered half a Vicodin and a glass of wine on weekends, which became a regular pattern. 13. She says the habit escalated to stealing pills from a friend with “hundreds” of pain pills and taking more than a half. 14. Vicki also says she called in prescriptions while working for dentists and once got caught after calling in prescriptions for herself and Emily. 15. She says the addiction was hidden well because pills let her function, set the tone for the day, and then chase the feeling with alcohol at night. 16. When her daughter Emily was sexually assaulted at school at 15, Vicki says the trauma hit her while she was divorced, alone, and using more. 17. Vicki says she reached a point where a rehab place quoted $30,000, so she Googled how to detox from Vicodin instead. 18. She stopped on a Friday, went to an AA meeting with a friend in program, and later told the room she had four days after drinking liquid THC. 19. The tone is conversational, confessional, and specific, with Stephanie using personal examples and Vicki answering in a detailed, chronological way. 20. People interested in sobriety, family trauma, and pill addiction will likely connect with this episode, while listeners wanting a light celebrity chat may skip it.

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