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Are you looking for Quit Like a Woman<\/em> quotes? What do these quotes say about recovering from alcohol addiction?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Quit Like a Woman, <\/em>writer and long-term recovering alcoholic Holly Whitaker takes on society\u2019s relationship with drinking and recovery. She argues that alcohol is always bad for our bodies but that alcohol companies have persuaded us that drinking is a normal part of adult life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Continue reading for quotes from Quit Like a Woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Quit Like a Woman<\/em> Quotes by Holly Whitaker<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If the only alcohol addiction recovery program you\u2019ve ever heard of is Alcoholics Anonymous, if you think drinking is normal and even healthy, and if you think alcoholism is a disease suffered by an unfortunate few, long-term recovering alcoholic Holly Whitaker is here to set the record straight. In Quit Like a Woman, <\/em>Whitaker contends that we as a society see alcohol, addiction, and recovery all wrong\u2014that is, exclusively through a masculine, patriarchal lens. This means we misunderstand what addiction is, what causes it, and how to treat it, especially for women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitaker offers an alternative take on alcohol addiction. She explains how alcohol is always bad for you and how alcohol companies perpetuate the belief that you should be able to enjoy alcohol in moderation. She also offers a glimpse into her own journey to sobriety and presents a feminine, holistic approach to recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the best Quit Like a Woman<\/em> quotes with explanations for context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSpending a night out drinking is akin to dismantling every piece of protection we have\u2014our cognition, our decision making<\/a>, our reaction time, our memory, our standards, our voice. If we thought about alcohol in this way\u2014as something that undermines our collective momentum and personal agency and vitality and self-worth\u2014what would that mean for us? What if we all rejected the poison\u2014then what? I\u2019ll tell you what: world domination, bitches.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Whitaker asserts that cravings will arise but that you can cope with a craving by 1) accepting it, 2) ignoring the negative narratives you\u2019ve woven around the craving (such as the belief that you can never resist cravings, that cravings mean you\u2019re weak, and so on), 3) exploring the physical sensations of the craving\u2014for instance a tightness in your chest, clenched fists, or other physical changes, and 4) waiting the craving out by not acting on it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSobriety, if it is anything, is paying attention<\/a>, seeing the wonder and the beauty around us that we so easily sprint by on our way to the next thing. And this is more than fun; this is actually living.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Find forms of fun to replace the old, self-destructive ways you had fun, recommends Whitaker. These can be \u201cnormal\u201d activities, just without the addictive substance (eating out, going to museums, picnics), childish activities (visiting a theme park, bouncing on a trampoline, goofing around with friends), or spending quality time alone (with a good book, show, or craft). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAlcohol is the only drug in the world where, when you stop taking it, you are seen as having a disease.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

According to Whitaker, alcohol companies invest heavily in marketing that encourages people to continue drinking<\/strong>. This marketing portrays drinking as a normal part of adult life. Particularly for women, alcohol companies stress the normalcy of drinking at every stage in life: motherhood (de-stressing with a post-bedtime drink), career years (happy hours with friends), and retirement (pampering yourself with wine and liquor).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To justify continuing to sell a life-threatening product, alcohol companies promote the concept of \u201cresponsible drinking\u201d: the idea that it\u2019s the <\/strong>individual\u2019s <\/em><\/strong>responsibility to drink moderately<\/strong>. They claim that if you can\u2019t drink in moderation, it\u2019s your fault because you have an intrinsic weakness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies were able to come to this conclusion because an alcohol industry-funded study in the mid-20th century looked into the disease <\/em>of alcoholism, rather than the toxicity <\/em>of alcohol. Thus, ever since, we\u2019ve concluded that alcoholism is a disease that affects certain people\u2014not that alcohol itself is harmful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFinally, my hope, because here is the part of your dating life where you no longer date to find someone to fill the emptiness. You look for someone to share the fullness that you both already are.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

View everyone you encounter along your sobriety journey as a teacher helping you grow, recommends Whitaker. In this way, you can frame difficult people and situations not as obstacles to your happiness, but rather as enablers <\/em>of your future happiness because they alert you to what you will and won\u2019t tolerate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you become sober, you\u2019re allowed to change in other, broader ways, assures Whitaker. You don\u2019t owe it to anyone to remain the same person or to continue participating in activities you no longer enjoy. This might mean you lose some of the friends with whom drinking was your main shared activity and other friends who simply can\u2019t be part of your journey\u2014that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are supposed to be able to tolerate it, and when we can\u2019t, when it doesn\u2019t feel good or things start going to hell for us, it\u2019s not the substance that\u2019s the problem\u2014it\u2019s us. We are damaged, weak-willed, defective, and totally fucked.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the inescapable marketing efforts of alcohol companies, Whitaker also believes that we\u2019re societally conditioned to view alcoholism as a terrible problem to avoid at all cost<\/strong>. As examples of this perspective, most people believe alcoholics shouldn\u2019t be employed, and many consider the word synonymous with more pejorative terms, like \u201cdrunk,\u201d \u201clush,\u201d or \u201caddict.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitaker claims that we also view alcoholism as a binary state: You\u2019re either a full-blown alcoholic, or you don\u2019t have a problem at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our collective view of alcoholism leads to bad consequences: Whitaker believes that because the label \u201calcoholic\u201d carries so many negative connotations, people go to great lengths to persuade themselves they don\u2019t have a drinking problem when in reality, they do<\/strong>. For instance, someone might convince themselves that because they only drink on weekends, they can\u2019t be alcoholics, even though their weekend drinking always involves binging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s more, people feel that as long as they don\u2019t have symptoms of \u201ctrue\u201d alcohol addiction they can proceed to drink as they have been\u2014even though their drinking may well be seriously harming them. And they can only determine what \u201ctrue\u201d alcohol addiction is by measuring themselves against other drinkers because there\u2019s no standard diagnosis of alcoholism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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