In an effort to serve the recovery community, she started, where she shares ideas and anecdotes to help others find their own mid-life solution. 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. Sondra Primeaux is an artist, maker and writer and is cohost of the Unruffled Podcast. The cookbook author revealed on her Instagram Stories Wednesday that she was gifted the book Quit Like a Woman by its author Holly Whitaker last month, and the read prompted her to give up alcohol. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat Mary Katherine. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. 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. Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol - Ebook written by Holly Whitaker. Holly Whitaker is the founder and CEO of Tempest (formerly Hip Sobriety). You will never look at drinking the same way again. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

It is a qualifier for belonging and if you don’t imbibe, you are considered an anomaly. Yet no one ever questions alcohol’s ubiquity-in fact, the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesn’t drink. We drink at baby showers and work events, brunch and book club, graduations and funerals. We live in a world obsessed with drinking. The founder of a female-focused recovery program offers a radical, new path to sobriety.

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