Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

Reimagining Recovery (Holly Whitaker): ADDICTION

Listen now (55 mins) | “For years, I was asking myself whether or not I was an alcoholic versus really asking myself whether or not alcohol was actually providing any benefit to me. And for me..."

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Elise Loehnen
Dec 04, 2023
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Holly Whitaker is the author of the New York Times bestselling Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol. I had heard about Holly long before I met her, primarily because she was disrupting recovery culture and many people did no…

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