ABOUT QUIT LIKE A WOMAN The founder of a female-focused recovery
program offers a radical, new path to sobriety. 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 led not only 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
on the drinking continuum who is questioning their relationship with
alcohol, 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 examination of 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. ABOUT HOLLY WHITAKER Holly Whitaker is the founder
and CEO of Tempest (formerly Hip Sobriety). With years of experience
in the fields of healthcare and tech, she created a human centered
recovery modality and virtual platform offering education, community
and support services, in 2014. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat Mary
Katherine. ABOUT SONDRA PRIMEAUX Sondra Primeaux is an artist, maker
and writer and is cohost of the Unruffled Podcast. When she fell into
recovery in 2014, she was grateful to have her creative work to fill
the hole she was left with when alcohol was removed. In an effort to
serve the recovery community, she started theunruffled.com , where she
shares ideas and anecdotes to help others find their own mid-life
solution. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and two
children.
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