Addiction Cure Quotes
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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.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“I have always thought that people are, by nature, nomadic, but they’ve built up anti-human constructs to keep them in place and then they pop pills to mask their misery and look for ways to distract from their emptiness.”
― Borderless
― Borderless
“AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“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.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“We recognize that you've used substances to try to regain your lost balance, to try to feel the way you did before the need arose to use addictive drugs or alcohol. We know that you use substances to alter your mood, to cover up your sadness, to ease your heartbreak, to lighten your stress load, to blur your painful memories, to escape your hurtful reality, or to make your unbearable days or nights bearable.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“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.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― 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.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.”
― Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
― Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true, an inability to cope with current conditions, or a combination of these four causes, know this: not only are all the causes of dependency within you, but all the solutions are within you as well.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“I had to find something, ANYTHING to distract myself from myself. But you can’t run from yourself forever. No matter where you go, you are always there. No matter what you do to avoid being with yourself, you’ll always come back around to having to face you again.”
― How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
― How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“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.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― 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.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“What we call coincidences, accidental and remarkable events occurring at the same time, are actually circumstances and events that have come into your life to serve a purpose is to benefit you.”
― Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
― Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
“Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the first place.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery

“YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR TELLING YOUR TRUTH and for calling yourself out if you are lying or justifying something in your own head.”
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“Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
“In 1935, when there were no other programs, the founders of AA, Bill Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith, stepped up to the plate and took action to help a crippled population. All credit for the establishment of their wonderful, life-saving group goes to them and to those who came after them who have continued the tradition. However, there are hundreds of millions of people who still need help who are not among the estimated two or three million who attend twelve-step meetings.”
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
― The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery
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