Quotes about Addiction recovery

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I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like shit. I ha — Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and — Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease. — Steven Kassels
You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or — Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years ear — Ann Marlowe
Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becomi — Tim Cowlishaw, Drunk on Sports
You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you. — Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to — Samantha Leahy
The Big Book’s chapter We Agnostics draws a line in the sand: God either is or He isn’t. What was our choice to be (Alco — Joe C., Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life: Finally, a Daily Reflection Book for Nonbelievers, Freethinkers and Everyone
People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are sti — Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets sol — Mariel Hemingway, Invisible Girl
AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire — Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one’s thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the sp — Dan Mager, Some Assembly Required: A Balanced Approach to Recovery from Addiction and Chronic Pain
Not maybe. Definitely! We have an expression back home in Haiti, which says something like ‘a man who is thinking with h — Stevan V. Nikolic, Truth According to Michael
The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn’t. — Ann Marlowe
The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't. — Ann Marlowe
Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperb — Jodie Sweetin
Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial. — David Stafford
Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the w — Ann Marlowe
I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore. — Robert Black