Quitter A Memoir Of Drinking Relapse And Recovery



I don’t usually like to compare books, but “Quitter” is equally as good. The journey through active alcoholism, relapse, and recovery is a brutal, difficult, and demanding one, but one that can ultimately be redeeming. Erica Barnett provides a brilliant and intimate portrayal of her journey (particularly. In 'Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery,' the Seattle journalist gets real about the struggles of addiction and overcoming shame. A startlingly frank memoir of one woman's struggles with alcoholism and recovery, with essential new insights into addiction and treatment. Barnett had her first sip of alcohol when she was 13, and she quickly developed a taste for drinking to oblivion with her friends. In her late 20s, her addiction became inescapable. Erica Barnett, Author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery and How She Got Her Last Day One; Jesse Harless – Opioid Addiction, Recovery Practices, Tools and Helping Others; Jessica, host of “The Sober Girl’s Guide Podcast” on Ending Toxic Family Relationships, and Alternative Forms of Recovery.

Journalist Barnett debuts with an intense account of her alcoholism, denial, and, ultimately, redemption. With her first taste of alcohol as a 13-year-old in 1991, she discovered a “magic trick that took me outside myself,” one that, after graduating from the University of Texas, turned a shy young woman into a gregarious one. After landing her first reporting job at the Austin Chronicle, Barnett began drinking heavily, suffering blackouts before accepting a job at Seattle Weekly. In Seattle, her problem worsened, with more frequent blackouts and Barnett relying on box wine at her desk at work. Barnett’s snappy prose carries the reader through several rounds of rehab before the final one sticks, pulling no punches as she goes. Barnett doesn’t skimp on her life’s lows (she goes to an interview drunk, and shoplifts wine) of how her ever-worsening problem caused her to lose her health, her job, and many of her friends, and alienate her family. In the end, she begins therapy and reluctantly joins AA, eventually acknowledging, “I feel better if I give some of those things up to whatever’s out there.” Emotionally devastating and self-aware, this cautionary tale about substance abuse is a worthy heir to Cat Marnell’s How to Murder Your Life. (July)
Quitter A Memoir Of Drinking Relapse And Recovery
Reviewed on : 03/23/2020
Release date: 07/07/2020
Genre: Nonfiction
Paperback - 336 pages - 978-0-525-52234-8
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Audio book sample courtesy of Penguin Random House Audio
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Quitter: Drinking, Relapse + Recovery with Erica C. Barnett

There is no cookie cutter way to quit drinking.

Quitter A Memoir Of Drinking Relapse And Recovery

Often it takes many tries to find out what level of support you need to navigate life without drinking as a way to cope with life and what framework of recovery works for you.

My guest today is Erica C. Barnett, the Seattle author of the book Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse and Recovery.

Erica’s experience with drinking and quitting drinking illustrates that it often takes a lot of trying to know what works for you. And that being able to move from relying on drinking pretty heavily as your main coping mechanism to not drinking and being able to sustain that often takes a number of tries.

I loved my conversation with Erica and we covered a lot of ground.

We talked about the good and the bad in drinking, quitting drinking and life in recovery.

Plus Erica shared a ton about the ins and outs of the world of outpatient + inpatient treatment and detox facilities, which I knew very little about before our conversation.

In this episode, Erica and I chat about

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  • How awesome it is that we’re now able (with a few years distance from quitting drinking) to laugh at ‘all of it’ (our drinking, the situations we got into, the things we screwed up, the times we tried to stop drinking and failed, our paths to sobriety and everything in between)
  • The rapid increase in women binge drinking and drinking daily during the 2020 quarantine and COVID pandmeic and the relentless messaging in our society encouraging (and pressuring) women to drink everyday
  • How fucked up it is that our society first encourages and trivializes women’s reliance on wine as “cute” or “funny” and then blames women for becoming addicted to an addictive substance
  • Why despite the fact that alcohol use disorders are more common than opioid addiction and kill more people, alcohol is positioned as an almost entirely fun and harmless substance
  • Why relapse is more often than not a part of recovery yet relapse is treated as a personal failure rather than a near-inevitability
  • The differences between the many paths to recovery including cognitive behavioral therapy, 12 step programs, online alcohol-free groups, inpatient and outpatient treatment facilities, medically supervised detox services, sober coaching and everything in between
  • The judgement surrounding addiction and how it can be harmful to recovering addicts.
  • The treatment industry and how it relies on repeat customers to keep it profitable and thriving – as well as Erica’s personal experiences (what worked and what didn’t) at various treatment centers

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About Erica C. Barnett

Erica is a longtime political journalist and the author of a great book, Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse and Recovery. She founded and edits the website PublicCola.com, which covers local news and politics in Seattle.

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Grab a copy of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

Check out Erica’s blog, Thecisforcrank.com

Check out http://PubliCola.com and I Was a “Fun” Drunk. Until I Wasn’t.

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