Holly Glenn Whitaker

breaking up with other people’s truths that didn’t work for me.

This is also the time in which women are drinking more than we ever have before

The body takes three to four days to fully remove alcohol from the system, so if we are imbibing once or twice a week, we never fully reap the benefits of sound sleep

Since alcohol is one of the most toxic substances we ingest, our liver and kidneys prioritize it in the detox process. This means any other toxins waiting to leave our system are deprioritized—the alcohol cuts in line, and we are left with excess toxins

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

This is the way cigarettes always worked for me; first a prop, second a drug

We are constantly reevaluating the way it’s “always been done.”

Here the alcohol industry and the recovery industry converged, settling on the inherently eugenic belief that asserts humans are to blame for their alcoholism, not the toxic substances marketed to them in ways that subvert their rational thinking.

But we are a people who need definition—we need to know what is broken so we can fix the broken

Does drinking feel like it takes more than it gives