Blog – Bottled Up

Self Pity and Empowerment

This week we have two contrasting videos one on Self Pity and the other on Empowerment

three short videos, all on the theme of Letting Go. Although it is natural to focus on the drinker, how much they are drinking, how often, when they will come home, what state will they be in, etc, unfortunately it doesn’t help. It doesn’t help the situation, if you focus more on the drinker and the drinking, it does not change it one bit. It also doesn’t help you either.

Update and plans May 21

It is a while since we recorded a video to tell you what we are actually doing in the website. Most of the videos we have recorded recently have addressed some issue concerning problem drinking and/or recovery. So this is a quick update on our current activity and thinking. So, in this video we talk …

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Anger is natural when you live with a drinker

Here are another two videos in the Bottled Wisdom series. In these two videos we look at two issues Anger and Staying positive. In the first video we talk about anger. When your needs and those of the people you love are overlooked or trampled on, anger is a normal feeling. However, the way you …

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Drinking and Lying

Here are another two videos in the Bottled Wisdom series, short videos which give a bite sized intro to aspects of the program. In this post we address two issues Talking to a drunk and Lying and drinking. We have addressed these issue elsewhere in more detail, however the goal of these videos in to …

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Bottled Wisdom

We have decided to create a new series of videos which we are calling Bottled Wisdom. It is a series of short videos, around 5 minutes long, each one tackling a specific single issue. It will be a distillation of the Bottled Up program in an easily accessible format. The detail can be found in …

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Lou Interviews John about Alcoholics Anonymous and Powerlessness

Lou interviews John about Alcoholics Anonymous and powerlessness to tease out the differences and similarities between Bottled Up and Alcoholics Anonymous.

Tackling the Problem of Alcohol

This week we decided to do something a little bit different. Instead of posting just one video we posted three on a single theme. The theme is Tackling the Problem of Alcohol. Hope you find them useful. Read More >

When do you leave an alcoholic?

This video is a response to a question asked by one of our members. The question is - I would like you to speak more about parting as being a possible solution for partners as some drinkers will not change in spite of what the family do. If you have other topics that you would …

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Is there hope for an alcoholic?

We asked for topics that you would like us to discuss and this video is the first of those topics. One of the members asked - "I would be interested to know how to talk to a loved one when their life is nearing the end. I understand addiction is hard to beat, but I …

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