Lisa explains that she was prompted to write, Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture, published in June 2017, when she realized after 24 years of working in hospitals, that doctors and traditional health care offer few solutions to women with alcohol use disorders. Lisa Boucher’s personal experiences make her especially qualified to write this book. She is nearly 30 years into her own recovery, the daughter of an alcoholic mother, and a registered nurse with extensive professional experience witnessing the effects and misdiagnoses of alcoholism. To raise this awareness and what can be done to change it, Lisa invited mothers, daughters, health professionals, and young women to share their stories of why they drank, how they stopped, and the joys and rewards of being present in their lives once they changed if or how much they drank. Additionally, their families go to great lengths to “help,” because a wife, mother or grandmother “can’t possibly be an alcoholic,” which exacerbates the myriad of problems for all concerned that arise when a loved one drinks too much. As she explains, and as I’ve observed in the work I do with individuals and families, women have a complicated relationship with alcohol, both individually and societally, for a number of reasons. I invited author, Lisa Boucher, to share this Q and A about her new book, Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture, because of its focus on women.
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