Bottled Up: Help for families of alcoholics and those struggling with alcoholism

Alcoholism and problem drinking is a destructive force, but help is at hand. Join experts Dr. John McMahon and Lou Lewis for kitchen table conversations offering help, advice, coping strategies and encouragement for both people who live with an alcoholic (problem drinker) and people who suffer from alcohol addiction. Alcohol can break up families and we know that living with an alcoholic partner is a stressful situation. At Bottled Up we teach people how to cope with and survive living with an alcoholic. We also help problem drinkers with their addiction with advice and strategies. We provide a program that was devised by Dr John McMahon, who was an alcoholic, and Lou Lewis, his wife, a trained relationship counsellor and who was married to an alcoholic for 29 years. The Bottled Up program is innovative and advocates that the partners of alcoholics can introduce changes to their lives, which will empower them and influence their drinkers to change. If you live with an alcoholic partner, or are looking for help to quit drinking, then Bottled Up is for you.

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Episoder(80)

ANGER

Join Lou and John as they talk about the anger and frustration that can come from living with a problem drinker and advice on how to cope.Anger can happen for many reasons – trust is repeatedly betray...

25 Mai 24min

Q&A - Talking to teenagers, Jekyll & Hyde drinker, dealing with denial

In this episode John and Lou answer your questions. They look at the question of talking to a person in denial about their drinking, the changes in a drinker, talking to teenage children about their p...

18 Mai 23min

Help! My friend has a drink problem

Talking to a friend about their drinking can be very difficult. You may worry about upsetting them, damaging the friendship, or pushing them away entirely. Often you are also not in the strongest posi...

11 Mai 12min

Living with a binge drinker - how to cope

Living with a binge drinker often feels impossible. It can leave you constantly on edge, scanning for the next crisis. You will probably experience hypervigilance and catastrophising as drinking cycle...

4 Mai 16min

3 Strategies To Change Your Life

In this episode Lou and John outline three key strategies to help change your life when living with an alcoholic. STOP doing things which don't work. START taking care of yourself. Get SUPPORT.These s...

27 Apr 17min

How to detach from a drinker - you MUST do this!

In this episode, Lou and John talk about how to detach from your drinker. Detachment is essential to leading a more stable, healthy and happy life, even if your drinker's state is not improving. John ...

20 Apr 18min

You are not to blame!

We have said it before, but it needs repeating - you are not to blame for an alcoholic's drinking. Drinker's are adults who make their own decisions. But living with a problem drinker can cause you to...

13 Apr 15min

Tough love. Let the negatives happen!

Let the negatives happen. We've said it before, we'll say it again! It sounds counter intuitive to being a caring person who has spent a long time trying to cope with their drinker's addiction – and t...

5 Apr 12min