ABOUT THIS EPISODE
What happens when your life looks "picture perfect" — but alcohol is quietly running it?
In this episode of Aligned Voices, author Mary Alice Stephens shares the story behind her memoir Uncorked: A Memoir of Letting Go and Starting Over. She opens up about being a high-functioning alcoholic: a successful television producer and mother of two who hid her drinking behind a "fun Mary" persona for years.
She reveals the exact moment everything changed — getting blackout drunk at a daytime pool party in front of her 4- and 5-year-old children, unable to remember putting them to bed. That next morning, she said the words that ended her drinking: "I can't do this anymore."
Mary Alice walks through the brutal first 90 days of sobriety, why quitting drinking is only half the battle, the role of community and AA, and the advice that kept her going: "do the next right thing" and "one day at a time."
If you're questioning your own relationship with alcohol — or love someone who is — this one's for you.
