Quotes about Addiction and recovery

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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
I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again. — Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
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
A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs — Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture
Who are we without our addictions; without our media-induced hungers? So often the voices we hear echoing in our mind ar — L.M. Browning, Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations
Like most people who decide to get sober, I was brought to Alcoholics Anonymous. While AA certainly works for others, it — Noah Levine, Refuge Recovery: A Buddhist Path to Recovering from Addiction
Trust yourself. You’ve survived a lot, and you’ll survive whatever is coming. — Robert Tew
Have you ever come out of a dramatic, chaotic situation and said, “I did everything I could, and it wasn’t enough?”That’ — Toni Sorenson
Altitude sickness, unregulated drugs and medical gas enabled workers to become drug abusers/addicts — Steven Magee
He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife. — Dianne Harman, Blue Coyote Motel
He could still remember how the first sip of wine made him feel. — Dianne Harman, Blue Coyote Motel
Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it. — Hannibal Lecture
Mom rubbed the back of my neck and we kept walking, away from the kids and the colors and the high-pitched, happy voices — Amy Sargent Swank, Seven Birds
Note: addiction diverts attention — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I don't know what happened, but I do know this. It's not going anywhere. When you light up it waits for you to come down — E.M. Youman, The Prince's Plan
No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we n — E.M. Youman, The Prince's Plan
I felt utterly stripped of safety and love. And so, what tormented me most as I shook through August of 1988 wasn’t the — Maia Szalavitz, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
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