” ‘Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world.’ – Glennon Doyle” I have always prided myself on bucking what society expects of me to a certain extent – I don’t have kids, I don’t own a home, we only have one car, etc. “To properly heal We need to create a life we don’t need to escape.” I have known this in my soul, but seeing it in words reaffirmed my belief that I need to work on my relationship with MYSELF to work on my relationship with alcohol. Reading this helped me to understand WHY that was happening, and I am so grateful to have learned more about this effect of alcohol. “If we flood our system with higher-than-normal levels of dopamine, we also flood our system with high levels of CRF, or anxiety.” I’ve talked about the worsening of my “hangxiety” over the years, and how it was a driving factor in deciding to take a year off of drinking (you can read more in my “why” blog post). “First, ’s the number one rape drug.”Wow. That made me realize that I had always been a “sugar person,” it’s just that the sugar I was regularly consuming was in the form of alcohol, not cookies. Also, I always used to pride myself on how I could avoid sweets, and considered myself a “salt person.” Then after I stopped drinking, I found myself eating way more sugary treats than I ever had before. Granted, we also had a Starbucks within walking distance, but the desire to have coffee every day came from somewhere. First, I never really drank coffee regularly before we moved to Florida, which coincides with us drinking a lot less, since we didn’t have any friends in FL to start and drinking alone all the time isn’t that much fun. “The pattern weakens the function of the adrenal glands, causing us to reach for more sugar, more alcohol, or other stimulants like coffee.”Yaas! I totally noticed this. I’m going to attempt to organize my thoughts below by calling out some of the quotes and passages I highlighted while reading the book.
Recently I finished reading the book “Quit Like a Woman – The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol” by Holly Whitaker.
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