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"You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever."
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"Today's tears sweep the road to tomorrow's blessings."
"The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me."
"None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life."
"A tree does not despair when a few of its leaves fall off because there is more room for greener ones to take their place."
"You have to work on it. You have to meditate on God's Word, which itself will change you and transform you into the image and character of God."
"Harsh winters precede pleasant springs."
"And the day inevitably comes when the scrapbook of summer, smeared with ice cream slurps and sweat stains, gives way to that new clean white notebook, spine unbroken, begging to be smudged with the enthusiasm of a number two pencil and a mind open to the possibilities."
"It's a new day. Yesterday's failure is redeemed at the sunrise."
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"Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing."
"When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: 'This is for my benefit."
"Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be."
"If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it? Yet it's no sillier than the word alcoholism. The reason alcoholism no longer sounds silly to you is because you're used to hearing it, reading it, and thinking about it."
"One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind - altering or mood - altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol."
"We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging."
"Your actions create an 'energy vortex' that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture."
"Alcohol and drugs are not the problems; they are what people are using to help themselves cope with the problems. Those problems always have both physical and psychological components - anything from anemia, hypoglycemia, or a sluggish thyroid to attention deficient disorder, brain - wave pattern imbalances, or deep emotional pain."
"I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again."
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