Addiction Quote by John Bradshaw Download Open image “Shame is the root of all addictions.” — John Bradshaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Addiction Home Roots Shame
Its not shameful to be an addict but its shameful to do nothing about it.... — Shiv Adhikari Copy Share Image
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people feel shame when they revisit their years of addiction. — Caroline Calloway Copy Share Image
“The more I drank to relieve my shame-based loneliness and hurt, the more I felt ashamed. Shame begets shame. The cycle begins with the… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once. — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
So much shame goes hand-in-hand with an eating disorder, with addiction of any kind. It's very lonely because you don't know how to talk… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, most of our vital, spontaneous, instinctual life gets shamed. Children are shamed for being too rambunctious, for wanting things and for laughing… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“A covert kind of sexual abuse occurs when Dad or Mom talk about sex in front of the children when the age level of… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore. — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Love-that which biologists, nervous about being misunderstood call "attachment"-fuels the bond between dog and master or mistress.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“(b) Boundary Violation. This involves children witnessing parents in sexual behavior. They may walk in on it because parents don’t provide closed or locked… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“A toxically shamed person is divided within himself and must create a false-self cover-up to hide his sense of being flawed and defective. You… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They know their strengths, but they also know their… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“The ego defense of conversion transforms developmental needs into the need for something else. This could be food, money or excessive attention. In Max’s… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“In fact, the most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“If our primary caregivers are shame-based, they will act shameless and pass their toxic shame onto us. There is no way to teach self-value… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
What has drug addiction done for me? It's cost me my career, my fortune and basically my sex life when I found out I… — Robbin Crosby Copy Share Image
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time... Creative people probably do… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I really think the disease aspect gets lost when you're talking about alcoholism and addiction; it's not like you're battling leukemia or a heart… — Jim Irsay Copy Share Image
I had an addiction to artificial points of success. Like being able to run for this or run for that. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away from his… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“They say when you fall in love in love with someone that person becomes like a drug,an addiction you don't want to live without.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to… — Keith Miller Copy Share Image
Cold sweats, hallucinations I wanna speed to stop. The hell I'm going through The addiction's taking you. — Bullet For My Valentine Copy Share Image
