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Alcoholics Anonymous has a great definition of how we change: We change when the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of changing . -
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As my AA, NA, and CA friends have repeatedly reminded me, rigorous honesty is the first rule of recovery. -
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To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace. -
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Addiction goes deeper than obsession and compulsion. It is worship. It is giving my heart and soul over to something that I believe will ease my pain and provide an outlet for my fury at being out of ... -
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We will often stop at nothing to avoid cognitive dissonance. We will twist logic, bend reason, conveniently forget facts, invent new stories, even destroy relationships—all in the name of preserving o... -
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[Addiction is a] counterfeit of religious presence. -
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I am tangled up in contradictions. I am strangled by my own two hands. I am hunted by the hounds of addiction.! -
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Recovery is hard. Regret is harder. -
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I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. -
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“Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and bette... -
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One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery. -
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A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. -
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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the de... -
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Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory. -
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Passion creates, addiction consumes.” -
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Not every story has a happy ending, ... but the discoveries of science, the teachings of the heart, and the revelations of the soul all assure us that no human being is ever beyond redemption. The pos... -
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I have now come to believe that addiction is a separate and even more self-defeating force that abuses our freedom and makes us do things we really do not want to do. While repression stifles desire, ... -
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Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction to feed on our attempts to master it. -
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Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so we don't have to be touched by love or pain. -
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It is not the things of this world that either occupy the soul or cause it harm, since they enter it not, but rather the will and desire for them. -
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If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away. -
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We're not made to wallow in pleasure. Pleasure is joy's assassin.” -
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The average iPhone user touches his or her phone 2,617 times a day. -
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You can’t defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you. -
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The beginning of my sober years felt much like waking up to my mother’s song. It was a slow waking from some dreamy death spiral. And as I’ve talked to others who are in recovery from their own coping... -
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“[Cast] all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful” (1 Peter 5:7–8 ESV). Sober and watchful—what does it mean? To Peter, it means casting our anxieties on the Di... -
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There is a way to live in the wakefulness of true inner sobriety, and it begins with proper attachment to Christ, the Divine Love, the first light of the morning. -
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I fled the country I thought I’d leave this behind. -
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It is hard to get enough of something that almost works. -
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I see my past drinking as a behavioral problem, a learned response to dealing (or not dealing) with emotional pain and stress. Once I achieved the excavation of my wounds, I no longer lived with the s...
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