Surviving Life with a Drinker
This week’s videos are a continuation of last week’s theme of empowerment, although the title (Surviving Life with a Drinker) is not quite as grand
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Self Pity and Empowerment
This week we have two contrasting videos one on Self Pity and the other on Empowerment
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Letting Go
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.
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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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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 >
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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Do Partners of Alcoholics Need Help?
OK, fair enough, I can understand why some people think that way. I can understand how they arrive at that attitude or belief, but I still get frustrated. Sorry about that, maybe I shouldn’t, or maybe if I do, I should keep it to myself. But if I do, then I feel that I am …
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How A Woman’s Tears Brought Hope To Families Of Alcoholics
I came across this article that I wrote some time ago and thought that it might interest you. This article describes the incident that led to the start of Bottled Up. I have always hated it when a woman cries. I feel helpless, guilty, impotent and I just want to be somewhere else — where …
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An Alcoholic Says Sorry
An alcoholic says sorry About a year ago I wrote an article apologising for the hurt and pain that I caused by my drinking behaviour. For some time time now I have been meaning to record the video version of that apology. This is that video. An alcoholic says sorry Hi, John here. I recently …
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