“In the beginning, I knew I needed to stop drinking. I knew the reasons why I wanted to quit: I wanted to bee there for my kids, be a better mom, a better wife. I wanted to stop feeling hungover in the mornings. I needed the self-loathing, alcohol-induced-anxiety to end.”
“Needham’s Kimberly Kearns had three kids, a supportive husband and a seemingly idyllic life. But she couldn’t stop drinking. Now she’s making it less lonely for others to put down the bottle.”
“We’d get our children off the bus and drink from three o’clock on. I wouldn’t remember walking them home or putting them to bed.”
"On the Edge of Shattered" author Kimberly Kearns
“Kim’s drinking left her at the bottom of a dark pit with seemingly no escape - Until her husband helped pull her out of the depths, and joined her on a journey of quitting alcohol together.”
Both began drinking in their teenage years and continued through adulthood, marriage and parenthood.
"Oh, my friends are doing it," explained Kimberly. "I'm at a playdate with all these other neighborhood moms and we're cracking open the wine at 3 in the afternoon. So, I'll have a glass why not, this is fun."
“‘Let’s get together for a drink!”
It’s considered a harmless invitation among friends, but it was the kind of thing that Kimberly Kearns of Needham found was taking over her life.
She ended up in a destructive cycle and knew she needed to break free from it.”
I was interviewed by Brian Mann on NPR in December 2021 about my sobriety. The interview aired nationally. I shared about my experiences with drinking around the holidays and how it always ramped up between Thanksgiving and New Years.