Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

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.

Even if it is painful and lonely, associate with worthy companions.

Everything that happens to me is the best possible thing that can happen to me.

At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.