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He can recite the Steps and thump the Big Book with the best of them, but somehow missed out on one of the truly important lessons of most people’s recovery — the need for a degree of personal serenity.

Correlation is not, I repeat not, causation, but it has some value in itself.

It’s just an extremely effective way to establish a reasoned, rational sense of self that is unaffected by crisis and conflict.

To a seasoned counselor, there’s another way to view it. For one thing, these aren’t isolated incidents.

Families often think it’s the addict or alcoholic’s emotions that need to be overcome to succeed. But in fact, we need to start by dealing with our own feelings.

We’ve never seen a group that works, right from its inception. Progress toward work usually involves struggle through one or more of these modes.

If you’re not fighting your own conscience, you feel better about yourself, and conflicts with others diminish, too.

The coffee is just not that tasty. Yet they were getting something out of it that was important to them.

They believe that by demonstrating you can’t make them do anything against their will, they’ll convince you that confrontation is useless.

…progress is the measuring stick. You want your patient to know the joy of a structured, purposeful life.