From Mummy Wine Culture To Sober In Australia: Vic Vanstone

Vic Vanstone has been stealing wine since primary school. By 14 she was passed out in cider comas in farmers' fields. By her twenties she was around the world on the lash, chucked out of nightclubs, waking up in hotel rooms with strangers, and once blew her own finger off lighting a firework on the Millennium.

She kept drinking through it all because she could not see herself outside the party.

Then a pregnancy test the morning after her hen-do, three months along, made her stop. She started again six weeks after the baby was born. It took a second child, a Sunday hangover that made her think she was going to die, and a long stretch of therapy before she finally walked away from drinking for good.

You'll hear about: the diary entry from 2007 that she'd forgotten she'd written ("I want to go to AA"); the truth about mummy wine culture and the lie of "I just want the old me back"; what grey area drinking actually looks like from the inside; and why she now runs the podcast Sober Awkward and is writing the book A Thousand Wasted Sundays.

If you've ever been told you're "just a party girl," this one's for you.

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Provided below are links for services offering additional help and advice, and also contacts for Vic.

Podcast - Sober Awkward (available everywhere iTunes, Spotify or on my website)

Website - www.drunkmummysobermummy.com

Facebook group - The Sober Social for sober curious women - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesobersocial

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/drunkmummysobermummy

@Alcoholexplained

https://www.instagram.com/alcoholexplained/

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