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“Addictions are an attempt to preserve control over your feelings and your life and respond assertively to helplessness.”
― Lance Dodes, The Heart of Addiction: A New Approach to Understanding and Managing Alcoholism and Other Addictive Behaviors

“Any substantive conversation about treatment in this country must reckon with the toll levied when a culture encourages one approach to the exclusion of all others, especially when that culture limits the treatment options for suffering people, ignores advances in understanding addiction, and excludes and even shames the great majority of people who fail in the sanctioned approach.”
― Lance Dodes, The Sober Truth: Debunking the Bad Science Behind 12-Step Programs and the Rehab Industry

“The root of your problems vanishes when you cherish others. —Buddhist teaching”
― Tosha Silver, Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead

“Fucked-up people will try to tell you otherwise, but boundaries have nothing to do with whether you love someone or not. They are not judgments, punishments, or betrayals. They are a purely peaceable thing: the basic principles you identify for yourself that define the behaviors that you will tolerate from others, as well as the responses you will have to those behaviors. Boundaries teach people how to treat you, and they teach you how to respect yourself.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar