The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.

The answers are never 'out there. ' All the answers are 'in there, ' inside you, waiting to be discovered.

Although you may have never sat down and defined what your philosophy is, it is fully operative and working in your life at all times. It deals with what you believe about the world in which you live, about its people and events, about how you affect them.

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.

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

Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

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