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

@michy5363

3 жыл бұрын

Congratulations momma! For your baby and your sobriety. You are so strong!

@michellelee1123

3 жыл бұрын

you got this😘 from a 3.5 year recovering alcoholic mama

@terraalbritton6405

3 жыл бұрын

I believe in you!

@debbiefinn6483

3 жыл бұрын

Its now march 2021...just wondering how your coping? I really hope ur well...x

@taraszub420

3 жыл бұрын

Good for you momma ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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

@octaviusnation1174

3 жыл бұрын

K Maxx hey, you doing okay? I was never drunk in front of them. I got sober for them. How has people drinking in your life affected you?

@firstlast8258

Жыл бұрын

Cheers 🍻

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

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!!!!!

@armandotorres6803

2 жыл бұрын

You had tried so hard that nothing can stop you right now. Keep even try harder for yourself congratulations to you too!!!!!!

@mattyrush8080

2 жыл бұрын

@@armandotorres6803 Thank you sir!!!!

@brit4294

8 ай бұрын

And what was your experience like? I found that very interesting how she apparently felt extremely drunk just from one sip.. sounds like it was some sort of medical problem?

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

@thomasjust2663

2 жыл бұрын

Backlash from whom?

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

@caesar349

3 ай бұрын

Hope you’re doing ok now

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.

@thewewguy8t88

Жыл бұрын

i wish you a lot of luck.

@NamNguyen-wl8lv

Жыл бұрын

same

@SimonDelaney1974

10 ай бұрын

Seek help, even ring AA it’s a journey to recovery. Be easy on yourself.

@TrashBoat11

6 ай бұрын

Microdosing mushrooms has definitely given me the push I needed to get sober. Wishing you the best of luck.

3 weeks sober... and trying to stay that way. Major health scare with my liver, which shocked me so much that I stopped, cold turkey, after three years of vodka binging. Worst was when I was so inebriated I threw up in my bed, then went back to sleep. Like Dana, I was hiding it in places where I thought my family couldn't find the voddie (or so I thought.) I believe if people really find out what alcohol does to the body, it might make them want to stop. It also is only a temporary high, and doesn't relieve the original stresses and anxieties which need to be addressed. Good luck, everyone!

@pleaseverifyrecaptcha7757

Жыл бұрын

Congratulations!!!!!! You’re doing amazing 💖 keep trying!

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!

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

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

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

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

@torycolvin9500

3 жыл бұрын

I started my quitProcess 3 days ago -- You can do it.

@juliemacandrews1434

3 жыл бұрын

Find a life counselor...☺

@YoMama9021

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, How’s it going. I’m thinking of quitting. I think I need a friend or something. I need a boost mentally to get away from this

@YoMama9021

3 жыл бұрын

Julie MacAndrews cool you gonna pay for that for her? Sounds like a quick fix that probably won’t help

@Michael-tr7uq

3 жыл бұрын

Take a look at The Sinclair Method to eliminate cravings and obsessive thoughts for alcohol. TEDx talk kzread.info/dash/bejne/aHmbysuSj9aYpNY.html Documentary www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07NBWMH9D "The Cure" by Dr. Roy Eskapa PHD: tinyurl.com/y2n6nufe

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 🙏

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

@lidiaolejnik4723

4 жыл бұрын

Same

@wheatstonebridge

3 жыл бұрын

Same

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. 💗

@koichinishi9075

4 жыл бұрын

I hope you are doing well. One day at a time.

@tanyanoble5833

4 жыл бұрын

Koichi Nishi has

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

Very brave. Inspiring story.

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. 🙏🖤

@nagar62

4 жыл бұрын

Stay Strong mate

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. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 🙏🏾🙏🏾

@daphnewinteriris

Жыл бұрын

Seven weeks to sobriety by joan mathews is an excellent book

@Rastasoul1

Жыл бұрын

@@daphnewinteriris 🙏🏾 thank you I will look for it.

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. ❤

@ratkamari1180

11 ай бұрын

Please do it. Not a mom here, but 28 and severely impacted by this awful substance. It's not worth it. Stay strong and away from this crap.

@angelfortruth12

6 ай бұрын

I pray you’re doing well. Today is me weaning to stop. I’m now a new grandma. 🤍🙏🏻 God bless you.

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.

@damnmuggle

4 жыл бұрын

Sarah Thompson smart comment

@sarahthompson8098

4 жыл бұрын

@Quazi Roberts Technically, yes. Although the vast majority of benzo withdrawals arent life-threatening. Hospitals see far more morbidity and mortality from alcohol than benzo use. But yeah, dont quit your 20mg per day xanax addiction cold turkey.

@iamasmurf1122

4 жыл бұрын

No how about you just say NO why you think you need a proffesionals point of view is beyond me . No wonder you are all drunks you all think someone else knows you

@mandynicole10

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. They can give you some benzodiazepines to taper you down..you should never go cold turkey off alcohol after a long time drinking.

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

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

stay strong 💪🏽

@koichinishi9075

4 жыл бұрын

Can't do on your own.. Ask for help.

You're not alone.

Thank you for sharing your story x

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.

@Bonafide188

11 ай бұрын

100 percent, similar situation for me as well

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

I respect your complete honesty.

i can relate how inspiring!

Wonderful Story, Inspiring!

so inspiring !

God bless you for sharing your story 😔

Thank you

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

Courage!!!!!! Thank You!

This is so important.

Awwww what an amazing story

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

I’m struggling myself

@sharkbait4616

3 жыл бұрын

just remember no guy struggles or money struggles should determine your fate, you are strong cause you are alive, do not be the walking dead zombie, be alive and grateful for another day of living

@Michael-tr7uq

3 жыл бұрын

Take a look at The Sinclair Method to eliminate cravings and obsessive thoughts for alcohol. TEDx talk kzread.info/dash/bejne/aHmbysuSj9aYpNY.html Documentary www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07NBWMH9D "The Cure" by Dr. Roy Eskapa PHD: tinyurl.com/y2n6nufe

@debbiefinn6483

3 жыл бұрын

I hope ur OK?? X

I love her. Wow.

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

Amazing woman

Great lady

Well done

"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 feel like it was a spiritual moment. ❤

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

@MissParkette

8 ай бұрын

your children love you ❤️

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

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

Will have to read your books

4:29 Thats was a spiritual moment!!

Very inspiring..where can I find her book

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

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

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

I'm a mom and I need help now

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

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.

@brandyhuffman8672

8 ай бұрын

Same, I was sober 6 years, and the pandemic hit 2019 and I started drinking a ton of wine.

Need this 🙏🏻🤍 thank you 🙏🏻

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

@biancalord488

4 жыл бұрын

Great job. Take each day one day at a time

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

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

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.

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 need help we need help as mothers we need a safe place to talk. I'm a recovering alcoholic mother who is suffering from depression and need people to talk to. I've been isolated for years.

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

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

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

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

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

"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 ❤

Everyone can quit you have to want to

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.”

Oh I love that… still better (sober mom)

Seriously don’t use Facebook. Waste of time period

bowman becomes more handsome with time

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

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...

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

Normified

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

HOT MESS INTERESTING...

Its like having an affair with the booze...

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

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

@Seeker0fTruth

5 жыл бұрын

Sunshine Devela - They are, though. Do you have kids? Be real...

@Thesunshinelife

5 жыл бұрын

@@Seeker0fTruth I do have children 3 beautiful ones to be exact and I would never refer to them as that so it's you that must not have children

@Seeker0fTruth

5 жыл бұрын

Sunshine Devela - I have 3 boys... they aren’t ONLY chaos creators but they absolutely add a level of chaos to life. Whatever... it’s not worth arguing about or being critical. This woman is sharing her story of struggle. It would be nice if people didn’t always criticize and judge people for speaking their truth.

@tramekn

5 жыл бұрын

Sunshine Devela : stop being judgmental and be empathetic.

@christinetran491

4 жыл бұрын

Hahaha i kinda laughed when she said that...because they are

Should have kept drinking... This is the "apackofalcoholics"

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.

@Milzyminx

5 жыл бұрын

they seem fine and striving. Calm down

@iamasmurf1122

4 жыл бұрын

She is just another woman thats all over the place like they all are

@Chefgrlangel

3 жыл бұрын

She said "once her children were weened" implying she didn't drink while pregnant or breastfeeding. Most mothers don't risk their kids health like that.

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.

A real women doesn't drink alcohol Or has alchohol abuse I haven't seen my mother even drunk or drinking alcohol in my entire life my father drinks But its very less ,such types of women don't deserve to become mothers ,because they give babies with birth defects while drinking pregnancy.i will never drink alcohol in my entire life

Sober mom is not taking her frustration/hangover out on her kids.

NOT IN THE NAME OF AA This is not sobriety. This is about an individuals EGO. Sobriety is about adhering to the 12Steps and 12 Tradions of AA. Any individual can tell their personal story to whom they wish but - a non AA platform publicly is to completely ignore Tradition 11 Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio and films. It works if you work it....

She went from alcoholic to bad diet. Trading a vice for another and still justifying treating your body wrong. Her story is stupid because her efforts will go nowhere. There will be more women like her. Her husband should have left her. He’s just feeding her ego. What a simp