If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
Chris PrentissEvery person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.
Chris PrentissI wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.
Chris PrentissYou can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.
Chris PrentissEvery belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from taking action. If you don't believe something is possible, you won't even attempt it.
Chris PrentissAlcohol 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.
Chris Prentiss