Behind The Booze - The Impact on Loved Ones

society, culture, relationships · EN

Behind the Booze is for partners, spouses, former partners, parents, adult children, and friends who have been quietly and deeply affected by someone else’s alcohol addiction.It’s for the ones who slowly lost parts of themselves while trying to hold everything together in the middle of someone else’s drinking.If loving someone with alcohol problems left you anxious, hyper-vigilant, emotionally exhausted, constantly on edge, or questioning your own reality — this podcast was created for you.Hosted by Kim Cross — published author, speaker, and advocate for families impacted by alcoholism — Behind the Booze does not center the alcoholic. It does not diagnose, debate recovery, or focus on fixing them.It focuses on what happened to you.Kim speaks from lived experience. Alcoholism has shaped her life in devastating and undeniable ways — beginning in childhood when her mother was murdered during a domestic violence incident involving alcohol, later losing her little brother in a drunken