“Sobriety has a way of sorting out your friendships. They begin to fall into two categories: people you feel comfortable being yourself with—and everyone else.”— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com
“Sometimes people drift in and out of your life, and the real agony is fighting it. You can gulp down an awful lot of seawater, trying to change the tides.”— Sarah Hepola, amazon.com
“In the past, when all my troubles were buried under my addictions, things looked great on the outside but on the inside I was a wreck.”— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com
“As much as I acted like I didn't care about relationships- having sex just for the fun of it- I was still a girl on the inside an I still had feelings. I hated myself for the way I treated people. I hated the person I had become. the guilt for treating people badly badly and acting destructively too…”— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com
“During this rough patch in my life, all of my relationships were difficult - with family, friends, especially with boyfriends.”— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com
“The last thing you want when you are using and drinking is to be around people who are going to remind you of who you once were or of what you should or shouldn't be doing.”— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com
“I knew I wasn't the girl I was talking about in the interviews or speeches. I constantly let myself down and set myself up for failure. this time failure was right around the corner.”— Jodie Sweetin, amazon.com
“Abuse leaves a person emotionally handicapped, unable to maintain healthy, lasting relationships without some kind of intervention.”— Joyce Meyer, amazon.com
“Dr. Helen Fisher discovered that the ‘frustration-attraction’ experience of obstacles in a romantic relationship actually elevates feelings of love rather than eradicating them. In fact, she noted that the brain is activated in a similar way when we are in adversity-ridden relationships as they are…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“I drank for thirteen years for REALLY good reasons. Among them were unprocessed grief, parental abandonment, isolation, violent trauma, anxiety and panic, social oppression, a general lack of safety, deep existential discord, and a tremendous diet and lifestyle imbalance. None of which constitute a…”— Noah Levine, amazon.com
“The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make ligh…”— James Frey, amazon.com
“My daughter, Carly, has been in and out of drug treatment facilities since she was thirteen. Every time she goes away, I have a routine: I go through her room and search for drugs she may have left behind. We have a laugh these days because Carly says, ‘So you were looking for drugs I might have lef…”— Dina Kucera, amazon.com
“Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.”— Craig Ferguson, amazon.com
“Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy, sometimes nearly all of him, but, as an adult, he was never entirely not crazy. What he'd seen of his id while trying to escape h…”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com