Check Out Rosie Pryor’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Rosie Pryor

Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
My life can be split into two distinct timelines. Before I got sober and after. From as early as 11 years old, I started disconnecting from my body, turning to eating disorders to cope with learning disorders, hypersensitivity, and a growing awareness that I didn’t quite fit where I was planted. Growing up in small-town Louisiana, where drinking is ingrained in the culture, I had my first drink when I was 14 and never looked back.

I always knew my drinking was out of control, but I didn’t know any other way to cope with what I was feeling. Despite my recognition of the damage alcohol was causing, I could not manage to tame the beast. I had no idea how to save myself.

Finally, at the tail end of 2011, frustrated with my failed attempts, I signed up for a month-long yoga teacher training intensive in northern India. It was the only way I could think of to check myself into rehab without revealing my shameful secret.

On the rooftop of an ashram in the Himalayan mountains, I experienced sobriety for the very first time. It was fleeting but, in its way, permanent – a glimpse of what life could be like without alcohol. A seed had been planted. A deeper knowing within me recognized this as a place I would eventually return to for good.

I spent the next 30 days immersed in Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, breathwork, and meditation. I learned about the body’s energy centers, the chakras, running up and down the length of the spine. And how each one held a unique program for living. I returned to the sacredness of my body as the gateway to the soul. I began to knit the severed pieces of myself back together again. But after returning home, the strength I found wasn’t enough to withstand the pressures of my old life. For the next seven years, I continued drinking, teaching yoga, still drunk and hungover, and abusing Adderall. I still wasn’t the person I wanted to be, but at least I knew now that she existed.

Shortly after returning home, I had my first child and named her India, after the place where my healing journey had started. I slipped deeper still into Wine Mom culture. It was my way of coping with postpartum depression. Surrounded by moms who normalized excessive drinking, I didn’t have to hide it anymore—it became part of my identity.
But after my second child, things got worse. I weighed 92 pounds, drank enough wine each night to take out a herd of horses, and was edging toward a complete breakdown. My life was unraveling. I spent countless nights on the bathroom floor, letting damp bath towels absorb my sobs. A small voice inside me whispered each night, “Let go of drinking, and you’ll have a life beyond your wildest dreams.” I hated that voice more than I hated myself at the time. But it stayed with me. It wouldn’t let up.

In recovery, they say lasting change happens when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change. My life had become too heavy to carry. The secret-keeping, the lying, the wanting to die—it was all too much. I knew I had to change for myself. For my daughters. So, five days before my 36th birthday, I woke up hungover for the very last time.
I joined an outpatient group and started attending 12-step meetings. I reconnected with creative outlets I’d let go of over the years, like writing, painting, singing, and guitar. I spoke my truth and started living it truth for the very first time. Sobriety was the key that unlocked the rest of my life.

I got certified as a massage therapist, then dove deeper into energetic and somatic healing. I started offering sessions that combined massage with meditation and writing exercises. I knew the formula for sobriety had to include body, mind, and spirit. We are multidimensional beings. We must explore and address every aspect of the self to restore the multidimensional being to wholeness.

Two years into sobriety, the pandemic hit. Alcohol consumption among stay-at-home moms skyrocketed, and I watched moms around me lean on wine to survive the uncertainty. It became normalized, celebrated, and promoted. Covid-19 came and went. But mom’s daily drinking did not. A new crisis was born on the horizon of an old one.

I knew how that story ended. I’d played that tape forward enough times in my own life. And I wasn’t about to stand back and let the women around me suffer in isolation like I had.

In October 2020, I became a certified sobriety coach, offering online courses to help moms find clarity and return to themselves. I shared the tools and practices that had helped me, and several of those moms are still sober today.

In 2022, my family moved to Kansas City, and my writing career took off. I wrote a book proposal for Wild Sobriety, a field guide for moms navigating the wilderness of Wine Mom culture, which earned an honorable mention in the Hay House Book Contest last year! That recognition helped me gain the representation of Root Literary Agency, and since then, I’ve continued writing and teaching moms how to access creativity, joy, and freedom through sobriety. I currently lead a growing Writer’s Workshop for women and facilitate Wild Sobriety masterclasses that meet each week. My agent plans to start submitting my proposal in the spring of next year! And I’m hoping to see my book hit the shelves in 2025/26!

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I think after 20 years of drinking and not being able to stop on my own, the shame of that made me lose trust in myself. Believing I was worthy of love, belonging, friendship, success, joy, enchantment, and abundance, I had to build back up from scratch when I got sober. My identity was so tied up in alcohol I had to reimagine the entirety of who I was, which was equal parts thrilling and, at times, debilitating.

I recently “consciously uncoupled” from my partner of 15 years. While it has been as beautiful and honorable a separation as possible, it has still taken its toll on my kids. Supporting their transition while simultaneously trying to get a book published, build my business, and learn how to make it on my own has been quite challenging over the last year. It is also one of my most extraordinary adventures thus far!

Appreciate you sharing that. What else should we know about what you do?
I have been a sobriety coach, public speaker, and sober advocate for six years. I have witnessed dozens of women transform their lives and find their way back home to themselves through my sobriety courses, field guides, and coaching sessions. After logging more than 50,000 hours as a sober mom, I developed a first-of-its-kind creative solution for how to achieve success without extensive trips to rehab, expensive private counseling, or countless hours away from the home.

My signature method, The Framework for SOULar Powered Living, weaves together the wisdom of the ancient world (yogic and ancestral), the natural world (symbology and immersion), and the interior world (reconnecting women with their divine essence through creative practices). This mom-centric approach empowers women to not only survive but thrive in the modern world.

I grew up believing I should have been born in the 60s. I idolized the hippie generation, a group united by a mission to free the world from oppressive systems that no longer serve its people. I vividly remember, at six years old, sitting on our living room floor watching The Wonder Years, the iconic coming-of-age in the 60s sitcom starring Fred Savage. I was mesmerized by the older sister, Karen, from her bell bottoms to her fringe vests to her rebellious spirit. Because more than anything, I wanted to stand for something. More than anything, I wanted to ignite a revolution..

Now, I see what I couldn’t back then: sobriety IS that revolution. Sobriety IS our stand. Today’s sober moms are the equivalent of the hippies of the ’60s, united by a common goal: to change the world for our kids so they don’t grow up believing that alcohol is the only way to cope with life’s stresses. We are standing up to a patriarchal society that tries to keep us in cookie-cutter molds, dulling our edges with the normalization of “wine mom” culture.

We are saying, “No more.”

That’s what I’m most proud to be a part of—this revolution of moms who are waking up, wanting better, and doing something about it. I can feel it in the air, I can see it in the hearts of the women I work with. One day, they’ll make a sitcom about us, and our grandkids will watch it and say, “Yeah, my grandmother was one of those women—one of those moms who changed everything.”

What sets me apart from other sobriety coaches? Well, I do actually wear bell bottoms—ha! But in all seriousness, I believe my raw honesty and openness make the difference. I’m completely transparent about my journey—my failures, mistakes, and my wild side. I don’t hold anything back; I think people find that refreshing. I’m a mom who’s messed up along the way, but I’ve learned from it and lived to tell the tale. I think that realness is what resonates most.

Have you learned any interesting or important lessons due to the Covid-19 Crisis?
The pandemic highlighted a pre-existing condition among mothers. One that, while alarming, can no longer be ignored. In the weeks following the national emergency declaration, drinking among stay-at-home moms increased by 323%.

Mothers reached for the most readily available cure—the only one they knew—the only one that could be delivered straight to their door, no prescription necessary. Online alcohol sales increased by 262%. The modern-day “mommy’s little helper” arrived in cases on front porches via masked delivery drivers. Funny memes and Instagram influencers touted slogans like “The most expensive thing about having kids is all the wine you have to buy” and “Kids whine, mommy wines,” making light of the deeper issues at hand: pulled support, lack of resources, and no end in sight.

I am grateful that COVID-19 shed light on something that needs to be addressed. If we don’t act quickly, we will lose a generation of great women to wine mom culture. The statistics provide a particular urgency and relevance to my work. The work of helping struggling moms get sober. And for that, I am grateful.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.yourwildsobriety.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourwildsobriety/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23416536
• Other: https://yourwildsobriety.myflodesk.com/workbook
• Other: https://society6.com/yourwildsobriety/prints
• Other: https://yourwildsobriety.myflodesk.com/masterclass

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Jen Dean Photo and Michelle Gardella Photography