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
We venerate the substance; we demonize those who get sick from using
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
drinking, I became mother to myself and woman to most everyone else.
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
“As a mother you are supposed to sacrifice, tolerate, be very patient, be very thoughtful of others, and understand all the pros and cons of any situation. As a woman, you must give nothing, you have to protect yourself first, and you need not tolerate any nonsense. Woman must be able to ascertain which is the correct relationship—woman or mother,
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Long Deep Breathing, Breath of Fire, Sitali Breathing, Alternate Nostril
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I call it RASINS, or Recognize, Allow, set aside the Story, Investigate what is happening in your body,
Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman
We must learn to be big in a way we’ve never been big—we must claim our right to take up space, to say our words, to claim our desires. We must also learn to be small in a way we’ve never been small—to be in service, led not by our egos or by our desire for material goods or by our fears and aversions, but by our desire to be liberated from these t
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Baraz, Meditation as Medicine by Dharma Singh Khalsa, and Eight Step Recovery by Vimalasara (Valerie) Mason-John.