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

She Lost Everything—and Got Sober Anyway

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Christy gets a .25 blood alcohol level, parks on a highway in Gary, Indiana, and ends up in jail.

1. Drunk-ish - A Sobriety Podcast centers on Christy Tanner, also known as Mocktail Mommy, and her recovery story after two DUIs in 72 hours. 2. Stephanie Wilder Taylor hosts Christy Tanner, who is a certified recovery coach and the guest whose story drives the episode. 3. The episode asks how Christy moved from blackout drinking and jail to sobriety, divorce, and sober parenting. 4. Christy says she got her first DUI, then another on the Fourth of July, and ended up in jail in Gary, Indiana with a .25 blood alcohol level. 5. She describes parking in the middle of a highway during a rainstorm after a call from her best friend who said she could not listen to her kill herself on the phone. 6. Christy says her parents drove six hours to pick her up from jail, and she remembers her father's face as a moment of deep shame. 7. She says the ride home in her parents' car was six hours of silence and the first time she admitted she did not have control. 8. Christy explains that she chose rehab about 90 minutes from her mother so her children could visit every Sunday and she could FaceTime them. 9. She says her daughter was seven months old, so she had to stop breastfeeding immediately when she entered treatment on July 15. 10. Christy says rehab lasted 61 days, not the 28 days she expected, and that she originally thought fixing her marriage would fix her drinking. 11. She says rehab made it clear that her marriage could not be saved in the same way her sobriety could, and that she had to choose herself. 12. Christy says she moved out after rehab, took a one-bedroom apartment, and used nesting with her husband while the kids stayed with each parent in turn. 13. She tells her children she was in rehab to learn how to take care of herself, be a better mom, and look in the mirror without hating herself. 14. Christy says she started Mocktail Mommy so the internet would know she was an alcoholic and she would have accountability when she got home. 15. She says she went to 90 meetings in 60 days, attended AA three times a day, did yoga, and built a physical apartment plan before leaving treatment. 16. Christy describes the early years of sobriety as physical withdrawal, then mental clarity, then a spiritual shift that felt like peace in her body. 17. The conversation is direct, conversational, and reflective, with Stephanie Wilder Taylor interrupting for questions and shared experience. 18. Christy uses plain language, humor about "the white house," and repeated lines about shame, honesty, and "keep no secrets, carry no shame." 19. Listeners dealing with alcohol, parenting, divorce, or shame will likely connect with this. 20. Listeners wanting a dry clinical treatment overview may skip it.

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