Help your loved one drink less, reduce your stress, save your relationship

In a world that glorifies alcohol--from signature cocktails to craft beer--helping a loved one with a drinking problem feels like a losing battle. You've begged, bargained, and demanded they stop, only to see consumption ramp up and your relationship break down. This approach enforces a vicious cycle of confrontation, shame, and more drinking. Author and filmmaker Maureen Palmer has been there, and she's found a better way.

In You Don't Have to Quit, Palmer shifts the conventional abstinence-only mindset to one that encourages positive change and harm reduction. She interviews world experts who've created successful tools, techniques, and resources to help reduce or stop drinking entirely. Her twenty practical, science-backed strategies operationalize compassion and empathy--and healthy boundaries--to help your loved one drink less.

With refreshing candor, Palmer shares her hard-won experience to debunk powerful myths that breed shame and secrecy and lead to relationship-killing conflict. This is the road map out of combat into collaboration and reduced consumption: harm reduction for the relationship too. Whether drinking less is a shared goal, or you want to influence your loved one in that direction, this book shows you how.

Author: Maureen Palmer
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Page Two Books, Inc.
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.33w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9781774584668


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
PW Booklife Reviews 09/02/2024
Foreword 08/01/2024
BlueInk Review 09/06/2024

About the Author
After two award-winning decades at the CBC, where she held senior producer positions in both radio and television, Palmer left in 2000 to series produce for American broadcasters TLC and the Discovery Channel. Shortly after, she and partner Helen Slinger formed Bountiful Films. The duo has produced a string of powerful and critically acclaimed hit documentaries. Maureen's most recent writing and directing credits include How to Divorce & Not Wreck the Kids, Cat Crazed, Sext Up Kids (for Dream Street Pictures), and Angry Kids & Stressed Out Parents - all for CBC's Doc Zone. Maureen is also an accomplished Lifestyle and Factual producer/writer/director. Sample credits include the pilot for The Food Network's Glutton for Punishment, The Week the Women Went for CBC Television, and Border Security, for National Geographic and Global TV.