Quotes about Addiction and recovery

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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
Top lines to a human being who tends to isolate (an avoidant) would mean they make an effort to talk to another human be — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Bottom lines are addictive behaviours that we make a conscious choice not to repeat. For example, a recovering cocaine a — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
I don’t think I’ve ever met an addict in long-term recovery who hasn’t gone through at least one traumatic childhood exp — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Quit while you’re ahead.All the best gamblers do. — Baltasar Gracián Y Morales
Tragically, because many addicts are not given sufficient love, nurturing and non-shaming dialogue at crucial stages in — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Some addicts do not even have basic parenting and instead are beaten, sexually abused, left to be looked after by a dysf — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Regardless of the different stages in our human development, unless we learn how to create loving and fulfilling relatio — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a mat — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
Drug and alcohol addiction almost killed me. I was a grave substance misuser in my teens. I started drinking at ten, smo — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
If we are continuing to attract partners that are emotionally unavailable, then it’s essential that we observe our own a — Christopher Dines, The Kindness Habit: Transforming our Relationship to Addictive Behaviours
I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one pers — Kimberly Nalen, Beautiful Junkie: Poems about Addiction and Recovery