John Taylor on Quitting Drinking, Childhood Trauma + 19 Years Sober

John Taylor is a qualified addictions and family counsellor, the author of the bestselling book Alcohol Stole My Mum, and 19 years sober. He joins Sober Dave on One for the Road for a quietly devastating conversation about what it actually feels like to grow up loving an alcoholic.

John was the special one. The clever boy who sang Leo Sayer to his mum at bedtime. By eight he was trying to sober her up before his dad got home. By ten he was writing his dad a letter begging to be rescued from a Scottish house with three drinking adults. By his 30s he was in rehab himself, refusing to say the word alcoholic because he didn't want to be like his mum.

Inside: the inciting incident at eight, three generations of alcoholism, watching his mum drink herself to death, and the moment he chose his daughters.

Quitting drinking, child of an alcoholic, NACOA, family recovery, generational addiction.

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www.drinkaware.co.uk/advice/alcohol-support-services

https://nacoa.org.uk/

Show producer- Daniella Attanasio-Martinez

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