Hola Sober August

WISDOM TEACHER

"Sometimes a quote can hit you right in the gut and leave me speechless. In an instant, their words often articulate what I cannot put shape or words on. These are my wisdom teachers and I must choose to act upon what the gut punch has taught me or not. " - - Susan Christina Founder Hola Sober

Image courtesy of Ann Dowsett Johnston

“we can do everything that men do and we've done very well in the post- secondary sector. We outpace men. We go toe-to-toe in the workplace. We all know that. Democratically we're equal. Hormonally and metabolically we're not. And so what has happened is that women have gone toe-to-toe with men vis-à-vis alcohol and we suffer the consequences much faster. Telescoping is real, meaning we become addicted much faster. We develop breast cancer, 15 percent of breast cancer cases are related to alcohol consumption. And we haven't had a public dialogue about this. I'm not saying alcohol's the new tobacco but I am saying that the alcohol industry has behaved like the tobacco industry targeting women and we have to be aware of that." ― Ann Dowsett Johnston (Author + Hola Sober Columnist + Host)

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