![]() ![]() We're not asking ourselves the wrong question," she said. And so we wait and ask ourselves the question, 'Am I an alcoholic?' And if the answer is no, then we keep on drinking. "We're really told you'll only quit drinking if you're drinking alcoholically. She also emphasized the distinction between alcoholism and sobriety, that you don't have to be an alcoholic to decide to give up drinking. It's a neuro toxic carcinogenic addictive substance - we have an impossible situation and we're sold a drug in order to make it work and we're made sick by it." "So we have this really impossible situation where we keep collecting things we're supposed to be and we're sold alcohol as this way to make it all work - it's the way we're supposed to date, celebrate and relax. "I think modern women have to be everything to everyone," she explained. Whitaker, who founded Tempest, Inc which is a modern recovery program to help people stop drinking, highlighted the pressures that she believes women face when it comes to the relationship with alcohol. Whats more, she could not ignore the ways that alcohol companies were targeting women, just as the tobacco industry had successfully done generations before. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.Glennon Doyle, 1 New York Times bestselling author of UntamedYou don’t know how much you need this book, or maybe you do. Someone with that much influence celebrating her sobriety instead of shaming herself about her drinking is a really big deal that's going to have a massive impact." ![]() This, though, is a bit of a tipping point. "For a while women have been waking up to the negative impact alcohol has on them. "I think it's going to change women's drinking forever," Whitaker told "Good Morning America" about Teigen's choice to open up about celebrating sobriety. ![]()
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