I grieved my mother long before she died | When drinking looked "normal" (with Marci Hopkins)

Описание: Marci Hopkins grieved her mother long before she died—and for a long time, drinking was how she survived that grief.

In this episode, Marci shares her story of growing up with abuse, emotional neglect, and a parent struggling with addiction—and how alcohol became a normalized, invisible coping mechanism long before it ever “looked like” a problem.

As Dry January invites so many people to pause, reset, or simply get curious about their relationship with alcohol, this conversation offers a deeper lens: what if drinking isn’t just about habits—but about grief we never learned how to name?

This isn’t a story about hitting rock bottom. It’s about how addiction can hide in plain sight—especially when it looks like functioning, social, everyday drinking.

We explore:
1. Why abuse and neglect don’t always look the way we expect
2. How alcohol can quietly become a tool for survival
3. The grief of mourning the parent you never had
4. Why “normal drinking” can still be rooted in trauma
5. What it means to find peace without resolution or repair

If you’re using Dry January to reflect on your own patterns, if you’ve loved someone in addiction, or if you’ve carried the quiet grief of a parent who couldn’t show up for you—this conversation is for you.

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Our guest speaker, Marci Hopkins: https://wakeupwithmarci.com/
Marci’s book “Chaos to Clarity: Seeing the Signs and Breaking the Cycles: https://wakeupwithmarci.com/order-book/
Shatterproof: https://www.shatterproof.org/
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