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Quit like a Woman is a national bestseller (USA) autobiography by Holly Whitaker who has been a drinking addict. This book is the result of the thinking to offer a radical new path to sobriety and recovery program for a drinking addict.
"You don't know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life."-- Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30 co-founder and CEO
We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at the baby showers and work events, brunch and book clubs, graduation, and funerals. Yet no one ever questions alcohol's ubiquity -- in fact, the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesn't drink. It is a qualifier for belonging and if you don't imbibe, you are considered an anomaly. As a society, we are obsessed with health and wellness, yet we uphold alcohol as some kind of magic elixir, though it is anything but.
When Holly Whitaker decided to seek help after one too many benders, she embarked on a journey that led not only to her own sobriety but revealed the insidious role alcohol plays in our society and in the lives of women in particular. What's more, she could not ignore the ways that alcohol companies were targeting women, just as the tobacco industry had successfully done generations before.
Alcohol is a poison, a drug "designed to keep us down," writes Whitaker, founder of the online Tempest Sobriety School, in this empowering mix of memoir and self-help aimed at women. A one-time binge drinker and "train wreck," Whitaker got sober at 33.
When Holly found an alternate way out of her addiction, she felt a calling to create a sober community with resources for anyone questioning their relationship with drinking, so that they might find their ways as well. Her resultant feminine-centric recovery program focuses on getting at the root causes that lead people to overindulge and provides the tools necessary to break the cycle of addiction, showing us what is possible when we remove alcohol and destroy our belief system around it.
Written in a relatable voice that is honest and witty, Quit like a Women is at once a groundbreaking look at drinking culture and a road map to cut out alcohol in order to live our best lives without the crutch of intoxication. You will never look at drinking the same way again. The narrative offers personal stories (such as making new friends while sober) and tips on managing one's recovery (find a therapist, snack healthily).
About the Author
Holly Whitaker is the founder of Tempest, a modern, trauma-informed, human-first recovery program, which is started in 2014, a year after becoming sober, Holly is a writer and bestselling author of Quit Like A Women: The Radical Choice to Not drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol, a memoir/self-help book about drinking, the mammoth and often under-recognized influence of Big Alcohol, and what women+ really need to recover.
Holly has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Vogue, TechCrunch, Refinery29, Goop, and was named in Inc's 2019 Female Founders 100 list. She lives in the Catskills region of New York with her cat Mary Katherine.
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Rating: 4.4/5
Author: Holly Whitaker
Publisher: The Dial Press
Publishing Date: December 31, 2019
Edition Language: English
Genre: Alcoholism Recover, Women's Studies, Motivational Self-Help, memoir, Auto-Biography
ISBN-10: 1984825054
ISBN-13: 978-1984825056
Page: 368 (Hardcover)
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