Woman Shares Journey Through Alcoholism: 'I Am A Mom In Recovery' | TODAY 

Recovering alcoholic and currently 36 weeks pregnant. Praying I maintain soberity for my baby❤️

“We feel awful… For being awful… So we get more awful..” I hear & feel that. Glad you’re better now!!

I needed this so much today. Thank you. Mom of two little boys, 3.5 years sober in AA.

What a beautiful, honest woman. I'm sure she gets backlash wherever she goes. But the point is she's trying, and she seems to have met all her personal goals and is still a rockstar at the end of the day. Her children will be better for it. I wish my mom could have seen her progress and learned from it

The part where she talked of the spiritual sip got me. I can def relate!! I had an amazing spiritual experience that pushed me to quit after drinking heavily for 23 yrs and been sober for 15 months. Bless this woman!!!!!

Im a 33 yr old dad and im glad i stumbled upon this while im on MD 20/20. This made me cry hard.

Not her alone but whole family saved!!! Good work! Im very happy for you for your husband and lovely boys

Amen. I deal with alcoholism now but I choose to watch these recovery videos. I want to quit seriously. I think this is the first step. So much life out there, don't want to miss out . Thanks for the video.

You are a courageous, strong woman. You are a great mother!

I’m quitting today.... I’ve needed to find this video..

I'm not a mom, however, I can relate 100%.

Thanks for sharing! I too, hid my alcohol is places like that. So grateful to be freed from this. I practice working the 12 steps in my life today. May God bless you and continue to help you. By you sharing your story you're practicing the 12th step! Keep it up!

Absolutely inspiring, I am not a mom but can relate in so many ways. I am not free but I pray that I can say one day that I am 🙏

We feel so awful for being awful so we just get more awful. Such truth.

I'm a father in recovery and in AA. I identified with so much of what she said. Thanks for your message..

IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are deciding to quit drinking, PLEASE talk to your doctor first about safe detoxing. Alcohol withdrawal is the only type of recreational drug withdrawal that can be FATAL without inpatient treatment.

So authentic. I appreciate this deeply and hope it speaks to more than me. I am grateful I am not a mom but this seems like I am a stones throw away from being you... 🖤 Stay strong. 🙏🖤

When she talked about the Mom memes, it was funny and eventually not....I now recall seeking memes making myself feel better about my guilt of increasing my alcohol intake. Wow, after her expressng that, helped me to realize I used the memes as a reason and encourage my drinking. Goes to show their is Power in words, they can give life or death. Thanks for sharing!

This is what I needed...thank you. 💗

Very brave. Inspiring story.

I felt as if this could have been me talking in this video. 11 years sober. Crying tears of joy.

I love this. Definitely inspired! Thank u so much.

I can’t imagine having an addiction AND having kids and a husband to take care of, Jesus that’s tough.

When A Man Loves A Women is one of my favorite movies. I have turned to alcohol to cope with life. Been a mommy since I was 16 and struggled financially and still struggling I’m 37. Went to church but still I can’t get this life thing right. Smh days like this I just want to end it. My babies keep me here but how long will that last. I use to take Tylenol pills when I was 12 yrs old after my step father molested me. I just don’t know what to do anymore. I am thankful for this video this women is strong and I thank her for this video. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 🙏🏾🙏🏾

You found a good one in that husband of yours. Such patience & calmness. I'm grateful to have a husband like this, too. Nobody will ever understand how difficult this battle is unless they're walking it themselves. Thank you for sharing your story, Dana. I'm so happy for you & all of your boys.

"We feel so awful, for being awful, and then we get more awful." So real.

Thank you for your bravery sharing this story! I think it will help others, and I hope more mothers will share similar videos!

I’m turning 26 years old next month, I’m a mom of four. My father drank beer every single day like it was water. Morning to night. When my sister and I were kids our father would visit us here and there but the older we got the more his addiction took him away from us. He passed away from kidney and heart failure in his early 50s. I see myself going in the same direction. It’s turned me into something I don’t want to be. Today I decided to stop. It’s a little scary. Please pray me me. I know I’m not alone.. I will pray for moms like me, on this path. I know I need a plan, something to vent and release into. Maybe I’ll try journaling.. wishing all the moms struggling with this addiction the best in life, freedom, clarity, peace. ❤

Love this... thank you. Plus you are so pretty and love your tops!

I’m 67, been in recovery for many years. Guilt sucks, but I’m still drinking. I have been in sober off and on. I need to deal with my issues. I have blood cancer, this is not good for me!!

You're not alone.

My mom is an alcoholic and I have so much resentment towards her because she chose alcohol over having a good relationship with me. She is about to loose her house and is constantly being hospitalized for cirrhosis of the liver. Alcoholism DOES affect family. She can pass at any point now. I will never understand WHY she chose this path. I appreciate this video but it’s really sad seeing young children having parents that are this way…. They deserve better but I’m glad your at least doing something, rather than my mom… she is still in denial. I have chosen to detach myself from her 100% and do not have contact with her… but imagine, it still hurts but it’s her choice. Due to her addiction, I have chosen to NOT drink. Not even a sip. How dare I even think about taking a sip knowing my mom passed down alcoholic tendencies to me. My children and family deserve better than to ever see me ever fall for alcoholism. Life is rough but drinking is NOT the way to cope with stress or depression and I don’t feel sorry for alcoholics. They did this to themselves.

The honesty here is so refreshing.

stay strong 💪🏽

What an inspirational lady! Hope she is going great to this day x

Dana Bowman's books are so funny. I love her insight.

I’m struggling myself

I’m an alcoholic mom and have relapsed after rehab several times

I have been to many rehab i drink 1 year one time 7 months another time. Now I drink every day. Today I'm so sick. Who am I becoming, I lost control and I'm ashamed.

"Time to step it up": Though I'm not a mother, I relate the pressure we feel as women to be different than men in both our substance use disorders and in our recovery. We're told that our behavior, even the way we feel isn't "ladylike" and that we are bad/ugly/unfeminine for what we struggle with. While, at the same time, we are told that we have to be strong, powerful and break the glass ceilings, challenge the gender stereotypes (especially for GLBTQ women). Not to mention the standards we set for ourselves and our own self invalidation. Every time I try to "get sober", I treat my recovery like something that will make me a better person, someone who is able to inspire others, so I can better serve others. It's never truly been about me-how recovery might change my life for the better, how I might make positive new connections and grow personally, professionally or spiritually. I want my recovery to entail going back to school, finishing my degree, starting over in many ways, but never disposing of or forgetting who I am; I want to remember who I was before alcohol changed me. "I'm still there." I want to get to know myself again so I can let others know me and let the world be positively impacted by my authentic, brave, strong, inspiring presence.

I was inspired by her story. And at the same time I'd hope that she realizes other people have a lot of hurt to go through too and that it may be hard for them to express themselves and sometimes it may come through on that they're judging you. But if you can just try to use it to develop yourself and not to become hopeless. Sobriety is better because we're realizing we have to do something different. Hope it works out for her. There is a fiesty person in there, a fighter

Dana you are such a great momma to your boys and I know that for a fact I love their relationship with Jesus and you made that happen going through this so thank you

My children are adults now and I feel so guilty I hope and pray I didn’t cause them emotional pain because I could never forgive myself

I respect your complete honesty.

i can relate how inspiring!

Recovering.....still sick. I am a recovered alcoholic. I worked the steps and got well. It took 3 days to work the steps.

Enjoyed your story

when she said she wanted to die I felt that. bawling my eyes out

Thank you

God bless you for sharing your story 😔

I love her. Wow.

Mom wine culture needs to end… it’s everywhere…

I'm a mom and I need help now

Congrats, one day at a time. I got 11 years sober

This is so important.

Courage!!!!!! Thank You!

Amazing woman

Thank you for sharing your story x

Wonderful Story, Inspiring!

My alcoholism started out as normal then don’t know what really happened just started doing it more to everyday

I feel like it was a spiritual moment. ❤

4:29 Thats was a spiritual moment!!

Why do alcoholic women sound drunk even when sober? I can tell right away when women have a drinking problem,

When Covid started I got away from meetings and pretty soon started up drinking again. The first step is admitting I am powerless over alcohol and that my life has become unmanageable. Today finally I am ready to admit that, and say that I want to want to quit. thank you.

Mommy Winehouse Syndrome - it’s a real thing, believe me! Sober mom is better. When you’re an alcoholic with children it not only affects you, it affects your husband and children also. Alcoholism is genetic. You could pass down that gene to your children. Children learn from their parents behavior. My dad was an alcoholic and I drank for many years. Even though I wasn’t an alcoholic I decided to stop drinking altogether. I did it on my own and I did it for me. I don’t have any children. It was one of the best decisions I’ve made! I have better overall health, glowing skin, less bloating and I don’t wake up with a hangover anymore!

What if you drink to suffocate the demon?... There is another side to alcoholism that is seldom talked about.

Awwww what an amazing story

Great lady

We feel so awful for being awful and we get more awful… woe

Alcahol brings out what is in you, if you're an angry person it makes you mean, meaner and meaner, if you're a nice person it just makes you nicer and nicer until you fall asleep, point being, some people shouldn't drink, if it's changing your life in a bad way, you should probably stop, if it isn't beneficial why do you want it..I understand alcohol addiction, i'm an alcoholic, the only thing I seem to want when I get home from work is a beer, but it just makes me nicer, and it gives me energy, but that's me, alcahol effects everyone differently, I have a couple of friends who drink a lot, and I have found, if you hang around with someone who drinks long enough you will find out what is in them, good or bad...

so inspiring !

Well done

I don't think that calling the causes makers is cool. That's a silent affirmation for more of what you don't want. Your on the right path girl I wish you and your family much healing. The future is bright.🙏

I love how she is wearing a Johnny Cash Jack Daniels shirt.

Will have to read your books

One drink too many. Been there! Liver pain. Been there! Alcoholic poisoning. Been there! Now 31 yrs sober. Never going back there, NEVER!!

Cool vid. I also enjoyed the book "30 Days to Sobriety" by Harper Daniels.

"I probably smell like booze." I got pulled over the other day, and for the first time in literal years this wasn't my first thought when it happened. I'll be 1 year sober in February ❤

Thank you. I'm an alcoholic.

Well done 👍 and at least you got to keep your kids and husband. Rare

Very inspiring..where can I find her book

Everyone can quit you have to want to

What do I do ,I enjoy my life ,where do I go should I get analysis,please help I am at my wits end

Seriously don’t use Facebook. Waste of time period

Drinking takes away your presence and precious moments with your child. It dampens those priceless memories and steals your joy. Not worth it for your moment of dopamine “happiness.”

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Mummy wine culture proves how insidious alcohol can be. We'll use any excuse to make sure we can keep drinking.

bowman becomes more handsome with time

Me watching this drunk as. Mum but trying to quit

Oh I love that… still better (sober mom)

Normified

I'm so mad at myself. I can't trust myself

Alcoholics deserve no sympathy. At least the only people I see in these comments are others whose lives exist only in a bottle. The amount of cruelty alcoholics inflict on everyone around them should not be forgiven.

You want to drink soooo bad.....

Need this 🙏🏻🤍 thank you 🙏🏻

Its like having an affair with the booze...

Did she just refer her children to chaos creators? WTF🤔

When leightweigts think they have a problem! 😂 a few years of drinking and shes went through all this? Some people its a couple decade issue. This is just more of a board housewife issue

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So she was drinking while pregnant? I didn't hear her say she stopped when she had kids. I hope they didn't suffer from FAS.