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sobriety offers us everything alcohol promised—we’re setting up a very different narrative.

Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman

drinking, I became mother to myself and woman to most everyone else.

Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman

Exploring the relationship between American universities and alcohol

Holly Whitaker • Holly Whitaker's Rudy Moment

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My favorite books on the subject are Awakening Joy by James

Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman

“Isolation,” Holly Whitaker writes in her book Quit Like a Woman, is “an almost inextricable and necessary part of recovery”—it is “what saves you, what breathes you, [and] what makes your bones.”

Cornelia Powers • My Relationship With Drinking Ended As The World Shut Down

To properly heal from addiction, we need a holistic approach. We need to create a life we don’t need to escape. We need to address the root causes that made us turn outside ourselves in the first place. This means getting our physical health back, finding a good therapist, ending or leaving abusive relationships, learning to reinhabit our bodies,

Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

What life wants to give us is infinitely better than what we think it owes us.)

Holly Whitaker • Quit Like a Woman

“The goal here is to create a situation you no longer have to escape, or a life you don’t have to numb. The achievement of sobriety is not the point; it’s a by-product of the work. The work is the point. Addiction is the hook that gets you in the door, and quitting is the catalyst to heal deeper wounds.”