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An unflinching and hilarious memoir about recovery as a mother of young kids. Bottled explains the perils moms face with drinking and chronicles the author’s path to recovery, from hitting bottom to the months of early sobriety—a blur of pain and chaos—to her now (in)frequent moments of peace.
Punctuated by potent, laugh-out-loud sarcasm,
Bottled offers practical suggestions on how to be a sober, present-in-the-moment mom, one day at a time, and provides much needed levity on an issue too often treated with deadly seriousness.
Dana Bowman is a long-time English teacher and part-time professor in the department of English at Bethany College, Kansas. Author of the popular momsieblog.com, she leads and presents workshops on both writing and addiction, with a special emphasis on being a woman in recovery while parenting young children.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: The Before
Chapter 1 Birth with a Beer Chaser
Chapter 2 I Never Danced on Tables
Chapter 3 I Fall in Love, so All My Problems Are Solved
Chapter 4 All My Problems Are Not Solved
Chapter 5 We Go to Paris and Fight the Whole Time
Chapter 6 Zombie Mom
Chapter 7 I Have Found Jesus but No Clue
Chapter 8 Pinball
Chapter 9 The Dog Dies
Part Two: The During
Chapter 10 Measuring Time 83
Chapter 11 The Big Tell, Part One 93
Chapter 12 Tattoos and Meetings 103
Chapter 13 Toddlers at 4:00 p.m. Are the Devil
Chapter 14 The Big Tell, Part Two
Chapter 15 My Children Are Older and I Am Not
Chapter 16 I Find Out I Am No Longerin Control
Chapter 17 Christopher Scott
Chapter 18 The Big Tell, Part Three
Chapter 19 Steve the Sobriety Cat
Chapter 20 I Find Out I Am Not Hot
Part Three: The Now
Chapter 21 The Big Tell, and Me
Chapter 22 How to Survive Being Happy
Chapter 23 Unwasted Grace
Chapter 24 Street Dance and Beer on My Shoes
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