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To de-escalate a potential conflict, one method is to take a step backwards.

What is the largest addiction in the world? Looking good and being right!

Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.

The strange part about a person's lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.

When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt.

Anger can enslave us, or it can provide freedom, all depending upon how it is used.

Anger has two benefits: it provides a warning and the necessary energy for change.

Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.

When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others' own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.

Since the discovery of the fermented grape, humans have experienced the pain and the frustration of addiction.

They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.

Change is threatening to the status quo.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.

Humans can find many ways to hide from themselves in distractions and by being "busy.

Before the magic of recovery, I thought a perfect weekend involved hiding from myself with all the distractions life provides.

Being real is being true to you.

Rigid traditions capture souls
prisons of spiritual thought
man's religion has captured a god
grown too small and very weak.

People who are unwilling to talk about deep personal issues do not trust their own emotions.

Strong feelings associated with an event can keep memories alive forever.

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.

Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.

War on Drugs...will only be won when we point our thumbs at ourselves and ask the hard question: "How am I contributing to this problem?

Addiction is a "shitty" disease

The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.

If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.

Being able to say, "No," is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.

We violated each other's boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of "just kidding.

When anger is used correctly, it can have positive results!

World's definition of success
material validation of self
cold and naked substitute
for inner warmth and beauty.

If one wants to be loved
and return it full score
dagger of silence
closes the door.

Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

No one can make you angry! No one can make you mad! You get to choose.

Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy

Crossing the Ring of Fire is..moving from the emotional shutdown of numbness through the flames of fear and entering into the healing arms of change.

When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.

The more judgmental a person is the sadder they are.

When you wear a mask, you are not real.

When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.

Granted, anger can be misplaced and is often destructive, but anger generates passion, and that energy, if used correctly, can be highly constructive.

Everyone needs a place to be honest.

From our behavior, we obtain certain results, and these results reinforce our beliefs.

Your feelings do not lie to you;
however, they may be based upon a false thought,or a true thought, or based upon incomplete information.

Only then can I fly.
Only then can I be free -
when I
let go of me.

When face to face with our demons our destiny is in reach.

When we are not connected with our emotions, we are not connected to ourselves.

Boundary violations are deeply experienced.

Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.

I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive.

Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.

Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

I looked into the face of addiction and it terrified me!

For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power.

All decisions involve emotions,ignoring emotions decreases the quality of the result.

Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream
and died without joy,in silence and isolation.

Listing someone else's faults is taking someone else's inventory, and usually starts conflict.

Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.

Oh, because you're an alcoholic." Only when I heard those words did it filter through my own denial. Only then did I gain understanding.

Until I face the emptiness in my soul
and know this spirit within me,
I have not yet begun to live,
nor touched the face of God.

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.