Title: Quit Like a Woman Pdf The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety. "You don't know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Either way, it will save your life." (Melissa Hartwig Urban, Whole30 co-founder and CEO) We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduations and funerals. Yet no one ever questions alcohol's ubiquity - in fact, the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesn't drink. It is a qualifier for belonging, and if you don't imbibe, you are considered an anomaly. As a society, we are obsessed with health and wellness, yet we uphold alcohol as some kind of magic elixir, though it is anything but. When Holly Whitaker decided to seek help after one too many benders, she embarked on a journey that not only led to her own sobriety but revealed the insidious role alcohol plays in our society and in the lives of women in particular. What's more, she could not ignore the ways that alcohol companies were targeting women, just as the tobacco industry had successfully done generations before. Fueled by her own emerging feminism, she also realized that the predominant systems of recovery are archaic, patriarchal, and ineffective for the unique needs of women and other historically oppressed people - who don't need to lose their egos and surrender to a male concept of God, as the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous state, but who need to cultivate a deeper understanding of their own identities and take control of their lives. When Holly found an alternate way out of her own addiction, she felt a calling to create a sober community with resources for anyone questioning their relationship with drinking, so that they might find their way as well. Her resultant feminine-centric recovery program focuses on getting at the root causes that lead people to overindulge and provides the tools necessary to break the cycle of addiction, showing us what is possible when we remove alcohol and destroy our belief system around it. Written in a relatable voice that is honest and witty, Quit Like a Woman is at once a groundbreaking look at drinking culture and a road map to cutting out alcohol in order to live our best lives without the crutch of intoxication. You will never look at drinking the same way again.
Quit Like A Woman is brave, beautiful, and humane. Revolutionary! I want to gift this book to everyone I know, but really I just want to tell everyone to read this book. QLAW is for anyone who drinks alcohol (in any amount) AND those who are sober already.Holly breaks down the lie we have been sold about alcohol, how it keeps us from our power, how it is a feminist issue, and how alcohol is having a cigarette moment (which was one of my favorite chapters in the book). It’s packed full of research & data & statistics & QLAW allows us to wake up and see how alcohol keeps us from the most poignant moments of our lives, how it keeps us from ourselves. Some believe quitting drinking will lead to a boring existence, but that’s a lie. Holly weaves in her own story of sobriety and the ways in which she has come alive, come to know who she is & who she isn’t - how sobriety is the best thing to have ever happened to her (& why). My favorite thing about this book is the deconstruction of the dominant recovery path & how 12 step recovery was built to break down male privilege, but if you have no ego, if you are already broken down - perhaps you would most benefit from what Holly calls a feminine-centric recovery, that contains six elements that are covered in detail & is built from the recovery path she founded & created, Tempest Sobriety School.Each element has its own chapter packed full of tools & resources & guidance - to lead you to yourself. This is a revolutionary & ground-breaking book & I know it will have a huge impact on the way we view & treat addiction (& drinking in general). This is the book I needed to read when I was trying to get sober; but there was nothing like it - nor did I know there were options outside of 12 step recovery. Holly knew what she needed & she trusted in that. There was no deconstruction of an ego she didn’t have - there was a slow build of self esteem & self worth, which Holly owns, unapologetically. QLAW is brave & beautiful & humane - it is compassionate & empathetic & revolutionary. I LOVED.A Life-Changer & Game-Changer I wish I could give this book 10 stars — for its intelligence, courage, vulnerability and truth. The author does so much more than just share her story from addiction into recovery (a story worth hearing for sure). She challenges the entire system upon which Big Alcohol is built, as well as the notion that there is only one path to recover. This book is a rally cry for true self-awareness, and for understanding that, no matter which way we decide to get there, we are never beyond hope in recovery from addiction, or in transforming our lives in myriad positive ways. I've never read a book that blends history, personal story and inspiration so effectively. This book is gonna change a lot of lives. It's already changed mine.Quit Like a Woman is a game changer It took me less than 24 hours to read Quit Like a Woman, I only took breaks to pee and sleep.This book is a gem: part history lesson, part memoir, part how-to manual, and all of it will crack your heart open. It would have been a game changer for me in early sobriety or during the years before when I was wondering if I should quit, if it was bad enough for me to quit. It was still a game changer. Almost four years into sobriety it reignited a fire in me that I didn't know had smoldered.This book isn't only about quitting drinking, it's about being an informed consumer, it's about knowing there are options (in recovery and in life), it's about trying all of the things in order to find the ones that work for you.I want every human on the planet to read this book with an open mind, no matter what their relationship with alcohol is, it's that important.
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