The Bottle a Day Mum Who Wrote Sober Diaries: Claire Pooley

Claire Pooley drank a bottle of wine a night for years and nobody knew. Three kids, a husband, a working life. The wine witch in her head from the moment she woke up. A whole life functioning, just about, around it.

Then one morning after her own birthday party, she poured the last two inches of wine from a bottle into a mug so the kids wouldn't see. The mug said World's Best Mum. That was her last drink.

In this conversation Claire and Dave talk about gray area drinking, the lie of rock bottom, the wine witch, getting a breast cancer diagnosis eight months sober, and why she wrote The Sober Diaries to answer the questions nobody else would.

For anyone wondering if their wine habit has quietly become something else.

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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and links for Clare.

https://www.instagram.com/clare_pooley/

https://twitter.com/cpooleywriter

https://www.facebook.com/clare.pooley.58

https://www.wearewithyou.org.uk/

https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

https://alcoholchange.org.uk/