After a rewarding phase of sobriety and dedication to helping others, her mother began to urge Boucher to chronicle her own experiences on the path up from the bottom.īoucher’s work provides direct advice delivered in an accessible manner by someone who has walked the walk to recovery and is well qualified to talk the talk. Her book focuses on women with alcohol addiction, and the first story in her collection of sobriety is perhaps the most poignant: her mother’s account of her years of alcoholism and road to recovery. Ultimately, she says, alcoholics have a thinking problem – distortion, delusion, and denial constantly crowd in, and drinking suppresses those negative feelings. It took Boucher years, and a dedicated, disciplined adherence to the 12 Step program, to realize that she was better off without drinking. Most alcoholics begin slowly, perhaps drinking only on weekends, using booze as a reward, imagining the warm glow that the drink can provide and gradually spreading weekends out to include the entire week. Her first early marriage ended in divorce. By the time she was twelve, Boucher was smoking, using pot, and drinking. Her father reacted by acting the tyrant, using fear tactics in hopes that he could control his wife’s drinking. When growing up, her mother was “drowning in booze” and many childhood memories center on her mother wrecking the car, burning the supper, or just being nonfunctional. Please join me as we travel on a journey that is all about changing and saving lives.Ī mother’s wish for her daughter brought this guidebook into being in it, author Lisa Boucher recounts her struggles and conquest of alcoholism, with specific advice for women trapped in the clutches of the disease.īoucher provides ample autobiographical proof of her addiction. Aimed to start a social conversation about behaviors women partake in and thoughts that women have about drinking, but no one is brave enough to confront-until now! Through these humorous, yet tragic stories of women, Raising the Bottom is a little book of big experience that will help you answer the questions: Do I drink too much? Is it possible that my search for fulfillment can end here? The truth is revealed in these pages and the answer is YES!īased on a collective, three hundred years of experience from women who have been there and done that-you won’t be bored with statistical data and theoretical explanations from talking heads who spout theory but have little practical, first-hand knowledge or experience on how to dig yourself out of even the deepest hole. The lives of mothers and their children often follow one another like beads on a necklace. When you don’t think what you do matters, think again … yes, it’s possible to make music out of your silent screams.

Raising the bottom by lisa boucher