Healing Quote by Stanton Peele Download Open image “Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings.” — Stanton Peele ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Healing Life Meaning life Meetings Purpose Purpose and meaning Recovery Sobriety
Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful… — Geoff Shepherd Copy Share Image
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
“Recovery itself is a very un-glamorous daily process of being willing to fall down again, to break again, to cry again, to get up… — Shannon Cutts Copy Share Image
You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery - and there's not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility. — Bill Bonner Copy Share Image
“Recovery means ... getting to look everyone in the eye who battled to believe in you ... and say, 'I won.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
Recovery is an important word and a vital concept. It means renewal of life and energy. Knowing how and when to recover may prove… — James E. Loehr Copy Share Image
“Recovery is not only fun, it is simple. It is not always easy, but it is simple. It is based on a premise many… — Melody Beattie 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
“Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.” — Brittany Burgunder Copy Share Image
There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior. — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures. — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
Addiction is more malleable than you know. When people come to me for therapy, they often ask me whether their behavior constitutes a real addiction (or whether they are really alcoholic, etc.). My answer is that this is not the important question. The important questions are how many problems is the involvement causing you, how much do you want to… — Stanton Peele Copy Share
We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
The addictive experience is the totality of effect produced by an involvement; it stems from pharmacological and physiological sources, but takes its ultimate form… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
“About 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I’ve taken a lot… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
“to the world, and there is no more powerful expression of that relatedness than love, or true responsiveness to another person. The issue of… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
Anger management (which is a part of both public displays of rage and spouse abuse) is about changing a person's internal reactions to events… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
When spectators and fans say about drunken brawls, violence, and dog fights, "Well, football players are prone to these things - that's why we… — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha have written the essential corrective to the evolutionary psychology literature... — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance. — Beth Phoenix Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share
“SILENT LIKE SLEEP You appear by my side, silent like sleep. Soft hair, a little wild. No fear, gentle like a calm river. I turn and catch your gaze, before you have time to look away. Your eyes are searching inside mine. Perhaps, they ARE mine. More than nakedness, for there is no cover to take. The fire in your… — Donna Goddard Copy Share
It is natural that our minds replay old stories, because that is our own mechanism for trying to work out unresolved problems. Yet rerunning… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne Division, Fort Campbell.” Wanda nodded “May we know your name?” “Wanda May Divine.” “Are David and Thomas the first and middle names of your husband?” “Yes.” “Is he currently deployed in Afghanistan?” — Shafter Bailey Copy Share
“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
“The sole reason I stand to open it up now is that lots of people who are in pain just like I was, and… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It… — Eric Clapton Copy Share
