Quit Like a Woman
Recovery or Refuge Recovery. Go to your doctor
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remains
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
We think that if we change, if we tear up our social
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
“When your soul awakens, you begin to truly inherit your life. You leave the kingdom of fake surfaces, repetitive talk, and weary roles and slip deeper into the true adventure of who you are and who you are called to become.”
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
safety comes through conforming, from putting up with, from settling, from denying and swallowing the terrible ways people treat you.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
It’s a convenient idea, one that has ensured AA’s dominance in the recovery space for nearly a century: There is nothing wrong with the program, there is only something wrong with you—if it doesn’t work, it’s because you’re not trying hard enough.
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That thing that got you to this point is inside you and it is smarter than all the men in the world combined. It is truth, and it is guiding you. When you begin to listen to It—the all-knowing all-powerful It buried deep within—people will become scared for you, think you are making mistakes. They will think they know better than you, tell you what
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The first is ignorance: I don’t know how bad alcohol is, or I haven’t acknowledged I have a problem with it, or I haven’t recognized that it’s causing problems. The second is acceptance: I do know alcohol is bad, I do know I have a problem, I do know it’s causing problems, and I’m actively trying to quit it forever. The third is sobriety: I have
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ascetics.