In recovery meetings it is common practice for one person to share their experience, strength and hope and then to pick a recovery topic for the group to discuss. We have recreated that concept here on The Bubble Hour. Hearing that there are other people just like us...with the same experiences, thoughts and feelings is revolutionary. Tune in to this episode to hear our guest Kristin S. share her inspirational story. For her topic, Kristin talked about how identifying with other alcoholic's stories instead of comparingherself to those who were "worse than her" helped her to accept that sobriety was the right choice for her and to embrace recovery.
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A cold December day. A mystery unfolds. Thirty-nine year old Julie Kroll stumbles away from a minor car accident, leaving behind her eight year old daughter...and an open container of alcohol. As darkness descends, she disappears. This is the opening of Lipstick & Liquor, a documentary which explores the rise in alcoholism amongst women. As Julie's story unfolds, the film introduces us to four women who tell their recovery story. Lipstick & Liquor seeks to shake off the stigma associated with women alcoholics and to provide understanding and insight into the effort to stay sober. Join us on this episode for a discussion with the director of Lipstick & Liquor, Lori Butterfield, as she shares about the making of the movie and her journey in understanding the disease of alcoholism and the stigma around it. Lori is an Emmy Award-willing producer, director and writer whose credits include television programming for National Geographic, Discovery, Animal Planet, Travel Channel and Discovery’s Science Channel. Lori has been working in production for more than twenty years, traveling to 50 countries on six continents. Lori spent a combined decade working at National Geographic and Discovery Networks, with prior experience at Australia’s Seven Network and the news operations of CNN and Headline News. Lori is currently serving as Senior Vice President, Creative Content & Development at Home Front Communications, a full-service communications firm with expertise in digital media, interactive web services, content and broadcast. You can learn more about the film on their website: http://lipstickandliquor.com/ or watch the trailer below:
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Whether you are newly sober or in successful, long-term recovery, awaking from a dream about drinking alcohol can be unsettling. Drinking dreams do have significance and we can use them to reinforce our recovery. On this episode of The Bubble Hour we will discuss our various experiences and explore research on what different types of dreams mean at various stages of sobriety.
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On this episode, we will talk about interventions: what they are, who needs one, and how to go about doing one. When a loved one is struggling with an active addiction, it is an exremely powerless and oftentimes hopeless feeling. Because the symptoms of the disease of addiction are behavioral as well as physical, and denial is such a huge component of the disease as well, it is difficult (if not impossible) to reason with an active alcoholic/addict. Many people turn to an intervention to get help for an addict who is not able to break the cycle of addiction. But where to start? On this episode we will walk through the steps of an intervention, as well as provide advice on what works, and what doesn't. We will talk about ways a family can be helpful to an active addict, both with an intervention and in general, share our own personal experiences with interventions, and talk to a nationally certified recovery coach. Please tune in to this informative episode!
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