A Year of Support for the: Alcoholic's Spouse

In 2020, Annie’s husband lost his life to the disease of alcoholism. In an attempt to stop this vicious cycle from continuing, she has become passionate about helping others in the way she needed when she was in the trenches.Through her turbulent life experiences, Annie has found a deep passion for educating people from ages 8 to 98. Whether teaching children in her third grade classroom, inspiring like-minded peers through her memoir and Instagram, or writing patient advocate articles for the blind elderly via the website she writes for, Annie finds purpose through helping others navigate their own personal struggles in life.Annie’s philosophy is that knowledge is a superpower, and her passion for helping others centers on the ideology of living a holistic, healthy lifestyle and breaking the stigmas surrounding prioritizing self-love, self-worth, mental health, and addiction.While battling her way to happiness and peace for herself and her family, Annie has gained a vast array of experiential expertise on complex issues that include: Emotional abuse, suicidal ideation, grief, anxiety, anger, the family disease of alcoholism, mental health therapy, and blindness.Sweet and weary friends,When my husband’s alcoholism took over our lives, my heart was filled with so many painful reminders of how my life was completely out of control.This is the second book I’ve written about my journey with alcoholism. The first was my memoir, a story about being the spouse of an alcoholic, and the aftermath once things turned deadly. Find my memoir: I Did Not Kill My Husband : But I Almost Killed Myself on Amazon.I know that you’re overwhelmed. Living with an alcoholic sucks the life right out of us. We are exhausted from being the healthy, responsible party in our homes. We are exhausted from tossing and turning all night, suffocated by anxiety and worry. We are working to pay the bills, cooking, cleaning, chauffeuring the children here and there… homework… appointments… Life is go, go, go.You’re overwhelmed, but you’re ready to make a change. This workbook was made for you - the one who only has 5 minutes to spare (if that), but is desperate to do something, anything to find her way back to herself. As you heal and work toward living your best life again, this book can be used to help guide and encourage you along the way.This book is for anyone who has had an alcoholic spouse; whether or not you’re still with them, whether or not they’re still drinking, and whether or not they’re still alive. Its contents aren’t meant to take the place of any form of professional therapy or programs that aid in our recovery.Each month, I’m sharing three stories of my experiences surrounding twelve topics I’ve chosen for this book. Then, I’ve provided you with space to write down gratitude lists, as well as prompts for you to reflect upon with your own experiences.At the end of the book, I’ve provided you with resources I created that may be beneficial to your own healing. When I first started my own recovery journey, I know that drinking water and eating three meals a day were the very first changes I made toward a healthier me.It’s time to start setting attainable goals, friends. Ones that are just for you. It means that it’s time to start putting up boundaries, then fight like hell to keep them in place.You’re ready to detach and focus on your own health and well-being. It’s finally time to begin looking for yourself again… most importantly, forgiving yourself and loving yourself hard.Change takes grit. It takes strength from the deepest parts of our souls. It takes courage like we’ve never known before.I believe in you.-Annie (AM Parker) Read more