num_pages: 368
description: The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical new path to sobriety.You dont 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 CEOWe 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 alcohols ubiquityin fact the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesnt drink. It is a qualifier for belonging and if you dont 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. Whats 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 peoplewho dont 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.
language: English
title: Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol
publisher: The Dial Press