Holding firm in your belief about the life you want and taking action from that place creates miracles. The ride may be rocky. Times may ...
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage to say NO
Author: Fraser Trevor
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“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically – to say ‘no’ to ot...
You have to hit 'rock bottom'
Author: Fraser Trevor
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Here's why this is dangerous: If we wait until a person "bottoms out," it could be too late to help them. Every person has ...
Addiction is for life Addiction is a spectrum disorder, like depression, and every person is different.
Author: Fraser Trevor
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Addiction is for life, This simply isn't true, and it places a huge emotional and psychological burden on recovered addicts. Addictio...
There is no single gene, or set of genes, that determines whether or not a person will become an addict
Author: Fraser Trevor
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There is no single gene, or set of genes, that determines whether or not a person will become an addict. And even if a person's paren...
All alcohol dependent people have one thing in common; a biochemical imbalance of their brain and body.
Author: Fraser Trevor
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Three alcohol biotypes have been identified by nutritionist, Dr. Joan Matthews-Larson. One type has a liver enzyme(alcohol dehydrogenase ...
The best thing for your brain is to keep it physically and mentally active while eating nutritious food and getting plenty of social interaction.
Author: Fraser Trevor
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A healthy brain and nervous system regulate your body functions so you can have full command over your senses, muscles, and intelligence....
These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build. ~ Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, 2011 p 84
Author: Fraser Trevor
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Cover of Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of li...
A lot of alcoholics I speak to who have devoted themselves to a life of spirituality
Author: Fraser Trevor
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A lot of alcoholics I speak to who have devoted themselves to a life of spirituality – have previously had a history of drug or alcohol ad...
How to get you totally present, in the moment and out of your dissociation – let me show you how to do it.
Author: Fraser Trevor
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How to get you totally present, in the moment and out of our Dissociation – let us show you how to do it. Stage One: Close your eyes Sta...
Knowing we are powerless to control our addiction, allows us to develop the humility to surrender
Author: Fraser Trevor
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Knowing we are powerless to control our addiction, allows us to develop the humility to surrender to this insanely, irrational disease, illn...
Sanity comes in realizing that drug and alcohol addiction have gotten the user nowhere; it comes in realizing that no matter how many times the action was repeated, the results were always the same.
Author: Fraser Trevor
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Sanity comes in realizing that drug and alcohol addiction have gotten the user nowhere; it comes in realizing that no matter how many times...
The twelve steps exist primarily and profoundly because addiction is, in and of itself, an exercise in constancy
Author: Fraser Trevor
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The twelve steps affirm that insanity is entertaining the thought of that next drink or high. The twelve steps exist primarily and profound...