“The amazing part about being the author of your own life is that you can adjust the way circumstances are viewed, handled, and expressed.”
Source: Suck Less, Do Better: The End of Excuses & the Rise of the Unstoppable You
“Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can also result from medical illnesses such as stroke, heart attack, cancer, Parkinson's disease, and hormonal disorder. It can also be caused by a serious loss, a difficult relationship, a financial problem, or any stressful, unwelcome life change.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“...there is a saying used in twelve-step programs and in most treatment centers that "Relapse is part of recovery." It's another dangerous slogan that is based on a myth, and it only gives people permission to relapse because that think that when they do, they are on the road to recovery.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“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.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.”
Source: Cartoonist's Book Camp
“The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct cause is diagnosed, healing will take place and hoped-for cure will come about.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“In the one-treatment-fits-all approach, clients sit in group meetings all day and all evening and listen to each other stories. At the end of the first week, everyone in the room knows everyone's story. That goes on for three more weeks, and then most people go home with the same problems they brought with them when they arrived.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“Only discovering and healing the root causes of each individual's dependency puts an end to dependency. One-on-one sessions are key because the individual issues at the core of dependency are just that- completely individual.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the first place.”
Source: The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“When your kid’s dying from a brain tumor or leukemia, the whole community shows up. They bring casseroles. They pray for you. They send you cards. When your kid’s on heroin, you don’t hear from anybody, until they die. Then everybody comes and they don’t know what to say.”
Source: Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic