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Struggling with an alcoholic - STOP doing these things

Author
Bottled Up
Published
Mon 04 Aug 2025
Episode Link
https://bottled-up.com

This episode is essential for anybody living with an alcoholic. Lou and John talk about four things you must stop doing to make your life with an alcoholic better.

Stop Picking a fight, Stop Punishing, Stop Policing, Stop Pleading. They call them the 4 Ps and they will help change your life.


In this revealing and moving episode Lou and John draw on all their combined experience of living with an alcoholic and being a problem drinker to encourage you to Stop doing things which do not work.


For more information on the service Bottled Up provides, visit: www.bottled-up.com


Dr John McMahon is a professor and was the senior lecturer for addiction counsellors at the University of the West of Scotland. He has led prominent studies into alcohol addiction for more than 15 years. Before this, for many years, John had an addiction to alcohol. He has been sober for over 40 years.


Lou Lewis is a professional counsellor and the co-founder of Bottled Up with John. Lou's first husband had an addiction to alcohol for many years, from that experience and her counselling Lou has a deep understanding of the difficulties of living with problem drinkers. 


John and Lou are married and live in England. They founded Bottled Up in the hope that it would help change your life.

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.


For more help and advice visit www.bottled-up.com


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