Quit Like a Woman

Elizabeth Gilbert meets Catherine Gray in this voice-driven, sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving and always rousing memoir about the truth about alcohol, alcoholism and claiming your true self.Pithy, witty and sharp, written in the voice-driven tradition of The Life Change Magic of Not Giving a F*ck with the inspirational messaging of Cheryl Strayed's WildHolly's reach includes her digital platform Tempest, for the treatment and support of alcohol abusers, which has approximately 800,000 followers, her Instagram has over 40,000 followers, her podcast The Home, has a five star rating on iTunes.Quit Like a Woman is a lead title in the US with Crown Publishing.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. Holly has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, and TechCrunch and was named in Inc's 2019 Female Founders 100 List. She lives in Brooklyn with her cat Mary Katherine.*The book that inspired Chrissy Teigen and Sex and The City's Miranda to quit drinking* _____________ 'An incredible read' - Chrissy Teigen 'Has the power to change your relationship with your entire life' - Glennon Doyle 'This thoughtful, moving book will help a lot of people get to a healthier place' - Johann Hari _____________ We live in a world obsessed with drinking. We drink at work events, lunches, book clubs and weddings. Yet no one ever questions alcohol's ubiquity. In fact, the only thing ever questioned is why people don't drink. It is a qualifier for belonging. As a society, we are obsessed with health and wellness, yet we uphold alcohol as some sort of magic elixir. It is anything but. When Holly Whitaker started to look for a way to recover, the support systems she found for recovery where archaic and patriarchal. Urging drinkers towards a newfound humility is great if you're a man, but if you're a woman and not in a position to renounce privileges you never had, a whole other approach is needed. Honest, witty and trenchant, Quit Like a Woman is at once a ground-breaking look at drinking culture, a call to arms, and a celebration of learning how to claim everything life has to offer.A ground-breaking look at drinking culture, a call to arms, and a celebration of learning how to claim everything life has to offerI've long suspected that Holly Whitaker is a genius. This book is confirmation. It's a brilliantly clever, meticulously researched, fearless, snort-out-loud funny read that grabs you and won't let go.Funny, fast-paced, and bracingly candid . Holly Whitaker is no polished model of self-help evangelism, nor is her memoir-manifesto selling a one-size-fits-all-solution. Her story is a messy human one and all the more convincing that sobriety is a feminist issueAn unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself. Quit Like a Woman will change your relationship with alcohol - and it has the power to change your relationship with your entire life.This thoughtful, moving book will help a lot of people get to a healthier place.