Christopher Kennedy Lawford's new book Recover to Live will be a force with the power to educate as well as motivate transformational personal change….
I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing..
I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another..
You can't wear revealing clothes because of the sex addicts. Instead, you wear big bras, big pants and baggy tops. You're taught to respect others' a….
I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the Jane's Addiction reunion thing, that I would feel….
How important is it really that you feel satisfied right now for 2 minutes, compared to getting yourself free from addiction forever?.
[On her morphine addiction:] I was meant to 'taper off.' At times I felt such pains as must afflict a creature while a bigger beast eats and claws at….
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 was HIV positive..
We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol..
I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example..
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choi….
Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of t….
For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty b….
Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my fr….
I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take ….
Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it..
Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide..
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you..
I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things..
You become what you behold..
This stigma associated with drug use--the belief that bad kids use, good kids don't, and those with full-blown addiction are weak, dissolute, and pat….