Mom of 2 Who Drank Alcohol Daily Amid the Pandemic Shares How She Achieved Sobriety

Courtesy of Lainy Warnecke

A mom of two found herself drinking alcohol every day during the onset of the pandemic. However, while listening to a woman share her story on her favorite podcast, the Texas mom had an epiphany. At that moment, she decided she never wanted to drink again.

In 2019, Lainy Warnecke, from McKinney, had intended to take a break from alcohol. To stop drinking for a while, she attempted Annie Grace’s 30-day alcohol experiment and even made it last a few weeks longer. But the full-time working mom felt she was missing out on a few things.

“I was thinking completely backward from what I now know to be true,” Warnecke said in an email interview with The Epoch Times. “Alcohol is so universally accepted and encouraged for so many things and I wasn’t sure what life would look like if I cut it out completely.”

Lainy Warnecke, a mother of two from Texas. Courtesy of Lainy Warnecke

Last year during the lockdown due to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, as Warnecke worked remotely and had her kids at home, she found that the frequency and amount of alcohol she was consuming had increased.

“I was convinced that it would help my stress and anxiety which was at an all-time high,” Warnecke said. “I noticed that stressful situations were harder and harder to deal with and even little things were enough reason to pour a drink and hop on the phone to chat with a friend for ‘happy hour.’”

With the increase of virtual happy hours on zoom during the peak of lockdown, Warnecke felt it “was everywhere.”

She told Good Morning America: “It was in all the memes, social media. Friends were like, ‘Grab a glass of wine and call me.’ As if we didn’t have enough with the whole mommy wine culture in [our faces].”

Courtesy of Lainy Warnecke

Sometimes, Warnecke would also begin pouring drinks a lot earlier and would end up having an extra glass.