Quit Like a Woman
I call it RASINS, or Recognize, Allow, set aside the Story, Investigate what is happening in your body,
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
You will evolve, you will change your mind, you will fall in love with philosophies and then one day wonder how you could have ever bought into that crap or been so naïve.
Holly Whitaker • 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
(Some of my favorite authors for this purpose are Pema Chödrön, Marianne Williamson, Tara Brach, Eckhart Tolle, Rebecca Campbell, Brené Brown, and Meggan Watterson.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
because we were taught to tangle drinking with liberation, and because we were taught not to question.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
Which is to say that adopting an idea of powerlessness runs the very real risk of retraumatizing us, since that was what made us sick in the first place.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
When you add “willing to” before any aspirational statement, you let yourself off the hook of having to be somewhere you aren’t at the moment, all the while still keeping the north star of your intention.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
“find your voice; tell your story, make yourself heard”; (2) “know who you are. Establish your authentic identity or selfhood. Identify your needs and learn how to meet them”; (3) “reclaim your body, and its desires, from all who would objectify and demean it, whether it’s the fashion industry, pornographers, or even the medical establishment.
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And while my first prayers might have echoed some of what Step Seven begs, Please make me good, the prayers quickly became about something far more than me: Help me do good. Put me in service. With