Recovery - Episode 1

Emily Eggleston is the mother to two sons, Owen (9) and Eli (7). She’s the wife of Warren County Commissioner Jeff Eggleston. She homeschools. She’s a stay-at-home mom. She runs a Facebook group to foster relationships between local families whose children have special needs. And, she’s an alcoholic. Twelve years into sobriety, Emily sits down with me to talk about her addiction, her rock bottom, and her gradual but life-changing recovery from alcohol abuse. In the first episode of Two Moms Day Drinking, Emily talks about the amount of cognitive energy she had to put into her early recovery to maintain her sobriety and, eventually, to gain momentum. After a decade in Cleveland, Emily she called her family and asked them to come and get her. She felt, she said, like everything was falling apart. Her marriage had ended in divorce. She’d walked away from her job. And on top of it all, she told her parents, “I was drinking again.” Emily talks about the first two years of her recovery, and how those two years dovetailed with the restoration of a house, into which she said she couldn’t move fast enough, alongside her father. See the full show notes here! Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/twomomsdaydrinking)