Journalists Jenny Valentish and Brigid Delaney explore women’s health from different angles, weaving in their personal experience, in two terrific new books. In Woman of Substances, Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drug and alcohol addiction, visiting treatment facilities and AA groups, and charting her journey to rock bottom and out again. Mining the expertise of leading researchers, she explores the early predictors of addiction, such as childhood trauma and temperament, and teenage impulsivity. Brigid Delaney uses herself as a guinea pig in Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness. Starting with a brutal 101-day fast, Brigid travels the world to test things that are meant to make us clean and serene. She tries colonics, meditation, silent retreats, group psychotherapy and oodles of yoga, working out what is helpful and what is just expensive hype. Join them to talk about women’s health across the spectrum, from illness to wellness.

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