Quit Like a Woman
We go from being able to naturally act like kids to thinking the only time we get to access this state is when we’re a few drinks in.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
Removing alcohol, and allowing time to pass so my system could normalize, has allowed me to genuinely enjoy the most mundane activities.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
Removing alcohol does not remove options—it creates more of them. By no longer consuming a depressant that fuels your anxiety, an anesthetic that limits the depth of your feelings, a neurotoxin that impairs brain function to the point of forgetting the best parts of the night, and a poison that requires a long recovery period postconsumption, you a
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Nancy Levin once wrote, “Honor the space between no longer and not yet,”
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
Over a year into my sobriety, I asked another friend if she didn’t want to hang out with me anymore because I didn’t drink, and she reminded me that it wasn’t just me who was allowed to change.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
The building of relationships is the building of ourselves.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment. —ECKHART TOLLE
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
you don’t have to use willpower when you don’t want to do something. You just don’t do it.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
“May I never reach the point where I think I am done.”