I’m creating the resources & saying the words so many women suffering in silence need to hear.

If you or someone you love wants to know how to quit drinking without shame and in the fullness of God’s love, sign up for my toolkit for Christian women and book updates here: SobrietyCurious.com

When morning arrived, I knew I couldn’t keep living this way. But stopping felt impossible.

If you had told me that 5 years later, I’d be sitting here 4+ years sober and rarely ever thought about alcohol, I wouldn’t have believed you.

So I’m writing the book I needed back then.

Rocking my baby to sleep with a buzz and passing out after.

I dreaded having to tell my husband what I had done.

I cursed myself and cried as I realized something was *really* wrong with me.

I chugged water, popped Excedrin and tried going back to sleep.

5 years ago, I woke up at 2am and dumped a half a bottle of moonshine down my bathroom sink drain.

I’d been so desperate for a drink, I’d opened a gift bottle we’d bought in the Smokies, wrapped up for Christmas.

At 2am, I felt how out of control I’d become.

🎁🎁🎁 As Mariah would say...."it's Tiiiiiiimmmmeee!" (if you know, you know.)

Time for my "Favorite Books of the Year" post, which is always fun & hard to narrow down.

I read 60 books this, tracking nearly all of them on Goodreads. A lot of memoirs!

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Wrestling with this on Substack today:

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I’m Ericka. I write about faith and culture in books and magazines. I do not more social media in my life and yet, here I am.