The rise in middle-age alcoholism, how to recognize it, and what to do about it with recovering alcoholic Marcella Pilla Pettorossi.
What You’ll Learn in this Episode:
- How to know if you have a problem.
- How to build up courage to ask for help.
- Where to turn for help, get counseling or find treatment.
- What if you recognize this in a loved one or friend?
High Five Highlights:
- What's the best part about being sober now? That I get to help others and carry the hope of recovery.
- If you recognized the symptoms of addiction in a friend, how would you approach them to offer help? Ask questions, “Do You Need help?” “Is there something going on?” Don’t say “I think you have a problem.”
- As a recovery coach, what’s the biggest obstacle you face in helping people? It is the denial that they have a problem. They don’t want to recognize it until something serious happens.
- Do you have a favorite quote or book you can share? “One Day at a Time” and “Never explain yourself to anyone. Those that love you do not need it. Those that do not will not believe you anyway.”
- Finish this sentence: “Throughout my life, the most important thing I’ve learned is...” Be true to yourself.
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Marcella Pilla Pettorossi is a retired Reinsurance Accounting Manager with an associate's degree from Temple University and course study in computer science.