Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.

I felt that if he touched me, I'd die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn't touch me, I'd die.

I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.

Oftentimes winning can become an addiction, whether good or bad, to the point where you would rather lose it all before you lose at all.

For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.

This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time.

Memories consumeLike opening the woundI'm picking me apart againYou all assumeI'm safe here in my roomUnless I try to start again.

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but also for a better way of living in my triumphs and gained wisdom.

Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.