“Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.” — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“The punishment approach and bad consequences approach to treatment is the kind of thinking that is prevalent in every residential substance abuse… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addiction, or addictive drugs and alcohol. Once the correct… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“It's the causes, not the dependent person, that must be corrected. That's why I see the United States' War on Drugs as… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Depression can be due to a low endocrine function, nutritional deficiencies, blood sugar problems, food allergies, or systemic yeast infection. Depression can… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Most centers offer a one-program-fits all type of service, which is rather like a department store that sells one-size fits all clothing.” — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are. — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it brings us… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Alcohol is the drug ethanol. They are one and the same. Alcohol is also called ethyl alcohol or grain alcohol. It is a chemical… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Whatever you are trying to achieve in life, it is essential that you surround yourself with people who believe that what you seek and… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly. — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.” — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“We like to take credit when we get a new idea, as if we originated the idea in our brain, but what we actually… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
