Whitaker’s approach to treatment-like ours at Amatus-is to focus on these individual reasons as much as the substance addiction itself. One of several reasons is because they are external ways of coping with deeper underlying issues. ![]() One day, it became too much to keep up.” Įating disorders and addiction commonly co-occur. “My behavior was becoming more erratic, my secret habits were becoming harder to keep secret, and I looked like shit and aging faster than I should have been. “I was putting away either a few bottles of wine or a few pints of Jameson most nights, binging and purging close to $1,000 of take-out food a week, and smoking as much weed and tobacco as I could get into my lungs,” she says. She was severely bulimic and addicted to alcohol and cigarettes. But internally, she was suffering tremendously. She had the “right” clothes, the “right” job, the “right” apartment. And this is more than fun this is actually living.” īefore Whitaker got sober, she was living a life that looked good on the outside. ![]() “ Sobriety, if it is anything, is paying attention,” says Whitaker, “seeing the wonder and the beauty around us that we so easily sprint by on our way to the next thing. ![]() Her view is that recovery should be holistic it should improve your life and well-being, so drinking or using drugs could never compete with your sober life (I’ve found this to be true of my recovery, though that doesn’t mean it isn’t hard). 12-step programs don’t work for her, and the insurance she had when she got sober wouldn’t pay for treatment. Whitaker has been sober since April 15 th, 2013. Her book, Quit Like a Woman -which details how her own experience in sobriety informed her work with Tempest-is a New York Times bestseller. Holly Whitaker is a recovery advocate who created sobriety blogs The Temper and Hip Sobriety, as well as the digital recovery program Tempest.
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