The Message in the Bottle: Finding Hope and Peace Amidst the Chaos of Living with an Alcoholic

by Stephanie B. McAuliffe

The Message in the Bottle helps those who feel alone in their struggle with the drinker in their life find peace and hope. Is the drinker in your life making you crazy? Do you find that your thoughts and free time are consumed by ideas and plans to fix things so they won’t want to drink? Do you feel like you can’t talk with anyone about what’s really going on, because they won’t get it or because you can’t believe the situation you’re in? Stephanie McAuliffe shares her journey of growing up in a family where cocktails started by 5:00 p.m. She reveals her marriages to two alcoholics, and shows how she navigated life being surrounded by alcohol and alcoholics―and broke an unhealthy family cycle that went back at least four generations. Full of stories of survival, The Message in the Bottle is packed with support to help children and spouses of alcoholics find peace amidst the chaos.

142 pages, Paperback

Published July 17, 2018

Reviews

[Kay Pancakes · Rating 1 out of 5]

I originally bought this book while in the deep end of figuring out how to deal with addiction in my life. Thank god I was too short on sanity to read it at the time. This is just an extremely poorly written (and edited) anecdotes about dealing with substance use. The insights are few and the writing is bad. There should be more content to help people through this but this one ain’t it.