Pour Decisions: The Burnout-Alcohol Loop Professional Women Know All Too Well (Dr. Lori's Version)

About this event

This session explores the often-overlooked relationship between burnout and alcohol use in high-achieving professional women. Participants will begin with the physiological picture — how alcohol affects women's brains, bodies, and hormones, and the factors unique to women that shape both use and recovery. From there, the session examines the occupational, cultural, and psychological drivers of increased drinking in this population, including the self-reinforcing burnout-alcohol loop. Clinicians will learn to define gray area drinking and sober curiosity as experiences distinct from a diagnosable alcohol use disorder, and to recognize how professional success, social norms, and internalized shame can mask these patterns and delay detection or help-seeking. The session closes with a shame-informed, curiosity-based framework clinicians can apply directly in their work with professional women navigating alcohol use and burnout.

*Attendees must attend the entire presentation to obtain CE credit

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