Quotes by Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours

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When we practise self-compassion, we look after ourselves just as though we are nurturing a small child. In fact, a majo — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Let’s remind ourselves that to be compassionate and forgiving doesn’t mean we are endorsing dysfunctional behaviour. On — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through feeling our pain wit — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
No one can control their results. We can, however, control our attitude. When we practise compassion, it is most effecti — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy int — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
To stay true to ourselves and remain kind to others is an art. It does require daily vigilance and, at the same time, it — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Hitting bottom is an inside job — it's something that happens within our consciousness. — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Body scan meditation is mentally scanning through each part of the body with presence. It helps us be one with the body. — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony wi — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
The Karpman drama triangle is a classic model of codependent behaviour. First of all, a codependent will rescue someone. — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
It was only when I started to reconnect with my inner child four years into recovery (I was over four years clean and so — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Isms’ are described as transference of addictive patterns of dysfunctional behaviour, passed down from generation to gen — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Healthy and non-shaming mirroring is an important part of the process. We can gain this from a highly emotionally intell — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
A sex addict is also emotionally anorexic – they must be in order to continue participating in isolated behaviour such a — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Love addicts often pick partners who are emotionally unavailable because deep down, they don’t feel worthy of having a h — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Think of an untreated sex addict who spends hours every night until the early hours watching pornography on the internet — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
It’s important to be aware that many families are dysfunctional, but we can change the patterns. Even if a child grew up — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Mental stories can literally spoil a human life. It took me a long time to become aware of my mental commentary, such as — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
In the addiction recovery community, we recognise that addicts can starve themselves of receiving social, sexual or emot — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pa — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours