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The Modern Spirituality Show - Sobriety and Spirituality with Holly Whitaker and Ben Decker

Sobriety and Spirituality with Holly Whitaker and Ben Decker

The Modern Spirituality Show

03/16/23 • 58 min

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Your host Ben Decker welcomes New York Times bestselling author, Holly Whitaker onto the show to discuss:
✨ Holly's journey from an accountant, to getting sober in 2013, to publishing a bestselling book, to becoming a CEO and raising capital, to selling the company, and now working on her next book and her Substack
✨ The impact Holly's book on quitting drinking had on culture being part of a major plot line on the popular show 'Sex and the City.'
✨ The relationship between addiction, recovery and capitalism.
✨The impact of TV show, 'The Last of Us', has had on both Ben and Holly
✨ Ben explains the difference between Mahayana, Vajrayana and Hinayana Buddhism.
Learn more about our guest here:
Holly Whitaker is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol. Her work has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and many others. Holly's work focuses on understanding the intersections of systems, culture, and individual experience and identity through the lens of addiction and recovery. She lives in upstate New York.

Substack:

https://hollywhitaker.substack.com/

Email Course:

Purchase Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol

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Learn More about Upcoming Events with Ben Decker at Omega Institute and The Theosophical Society
https://bendeckermeditation.com/eventsBook a trip to Rythmia Life Advancement Center in Costa Rica on March 26th -April 2nd 2023, a special retreat hosted by Ben Decker.Experience Ayahuasca Plant Medicine at the First Ever Medically-Licensed Resort to offer this sacred shamanic experience. Enjoy a week of deep transformation with four plant medicine ceremonies led by shamans trained in the Columbian tradition and plant medicine preparation and integration workshops.
https://bendeckermeditation.com/retreats
Deepen Your Meditation Practice with Books by Ben Decker:https://www.amazon.com/Benjamin-W-Decker/e/B07C9WKP8J
Work with Ben Decker:
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Host/Executive Producer:
Ben Decker
Twitter.com/BenDecker
Instagram.com/Benjaminwdecker
Producer:
Ansley Weller
[email protected]

03/16/23 • 58 min

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