Quit Like a Woman
Guilt is always preferable to the thing that might give you brownie points for being a good person but ruin your mental health. Choose guilt over resentment, because guilt is a natural part of life, a thing we can work with and absolve ourselves of, while resentment is something that we heap on other people who weren’t asking for it anyway.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
We venerate the substance; we demonize those who get sick from using
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
Name the sensations, and Surf.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
We have all the answers buried inside us, and our issue isn’t that we just don’t know, it’s that we just don’t know we know.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
sobriety offers us everything alcohol promised—we’re setting up a very different narrative.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
techniques, hot lemon water, herbal tea, hot baths, cold showers (this is called “hydrotherapy” and it’s so, so good), coffee, essential oils, yoga, meditation, kirtan, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), massage, French pastries, emotional freedom technique (EFT), and many other things.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
Long Deep Breathing, Breath of Fire, Sitali Breathing, Alternate Nostril
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
Does it cost more than it gives, does it shrink more than it expands, does it cut pieces out of me I can’t reclaim? Does it make me hate myself, even just a little bit?
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
When high levels of dopamine are regularly released into the system from chronic use of alcohol, the dopamine is down-regulated (or balanced) by something called corticotropin-releasing factor, or CRF—a