![]() If you quit drinking, or are thinking about quitting drinking, it’s a worthwhile read. I was vegetarian for six years, I’ve run three half marathons, and I will talk to you for 45 minutes about my budget (I use YNAB, it’s great, and I also use an extensive spreadsheet that I would love to share with you.) Maybe this is why quitting drinking felt so easy for me – it’s easy for me to be disciplined, sometimes to a fault. I could not keep promises to myself when it came to anything, I had a faulty brake system and had never quite developed any kind of willpower.” I could not maintain discipline, or perfection, or diets, or workout regimens, or budgets. I could not quit cigarettes, nail-biting, meat, food, men, or spending. ![]() And it’s more complicated than that for a lot of people, but it’s not the same as a diet. I don’t think the diet analogy works very well, because if you’re trying to stick to a diet, you still have to eat multiple times a day, whereas with alcohol, you can just…not…drink. There’s a chapter called “How to Quit Alcohol When You’ve Never Stuck to a Diet”. There were some parts about how to quit drinking that I felt like were polar opposites of my experience. If you feel like not drinking gives you the energy to wake up and go running in the mornings, makes you sleep better, makes you happier, makes you a better friend and gives you more time for the things you enjoy, then not drinking is one facet of you living your best life. If you feel like you’re missing out on something by not drinking, or that not drinking will make your life boring, or that this is your punishment, then not drinking is going to be awful. If, however, we shift those perceptions and beliefs, and start to embrace a different idea – that recovery could be life-changing and emancipating that the best is yet to come that sobriety offers us everything alcohol promised – we’re setting up a very different narrative.” “If we think quitting alcohol is some sort of punishment, that a sober life is impossible or a boring and endless void, then we are setting ourselves up for an experience that will feel punitive and pointless and ceaseless and depressing. Some parts of how to quit drinking made perfect sense to me. The opinions on AA are so necessary – AA can work for some people, but there’s no reason why it should be the primary recovery program when it’s basically made by middle aged white men, for middle aged white men. The recovery memoir part is interesting, because everyone has their own story about how they recovered from anything they had to recover from. This book is half recovery memoir and half how to quit drinking guide, with a sprinkling of opinions about Alcoholics Anonymous. Bob Dylan - Just Like a Woman (Official Audio) Watch on. You will never look at drinking the same way again. Pero te echas a llorar como una simple niña. 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. haces el amor como una mujer, sí, lo haces, Then you ache just like a woman. I wanted to read this book because I read Holly Whitaker’s blog, and I read The Temper, and I quit drinking alcohol a year and a half ago. You make love just like a woman, yes, you do.
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