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.

How you conduct yourself along the path that is your life determines how your life unfolds.

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

Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are.

How do you change what you believe when your experience has convinced you otherwise? By creating a new experience. The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens. By the natural law of cause and effect, that new response will create new results, which you will then experience as a new reality. To reach the goal of happiness, act as though the following statement is already true: Everything that happens to me is the best thing that can happen to me.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.