“to treat people in recovery as a resource in their own recovery, not like a vessel that needs to be filled with someone else’s help.”
― Recovery Allies: How to Support Addiction Recovery and Build Recovery-Friendly Communities
― Recovery Allies: How to Support Addiction Recovery and Build Recovery-Friendly Communities
“Someone else’s idea of what constitutes a good life or “happily ever after” is not a one-size-fits-all.
You can be someone for whom relationships are too complicated.
You can be going through something in your life, processing trauma you may have denied for too long, or you can be going through physical changes in your body. Either way, you might not have the desires other people expect you to have.
Maybe all you want right now is a friend. Friendship is the best foundation, anyway, for whatever may evolve beyond that.
It boils down to this: Not everyone wants the same thing, and that’s okay.”
― Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery from Addiction
You can be someone for whom relationships are too complicated.
You can be going through something in your life, processing trauma you may have denied for too long, or you can be going through physical changes in your body. Either way, you might not have the desires other people expect you to have.
Maybe all you want right now is a friend. Friendship is the best foundation, anyway, for whatever may evolve beyond that.
It boils down to this: Not everyone wants the same thing, and that’s okay.”
― Grateful to Be Alive: My Road to Recovery from Addiction
“I learned early on how to act normal even when crazy things were happening.”
― Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery
― Addicted Like Me: A Mother-Daughter Story of Substance Abuse and Recovery
“The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires and anger, and to learn directly our capacity for freedom.”
― A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
― A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life
“You did not lose if you lost things that made you lose yourself.”
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
― Night of a Thousand Thoughts
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