I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

— Chris Prentiss

Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing.

— Chris Prentiss

One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind-altering or mood-altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non-essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol.

— Chris Prentiss

People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.

— Chris Prentiss

People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

— Chris Prentiss

Stress and anxiety cause our brains to release chemicals that put lines in our faces and tear us down emotionally and spiritually.

— Chris Prentiss

Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.

— Chris Prentiss

Take a few minutes now and see your current circumstances- your physical condition, your emotional condition, your possessions, your financial condition, where and how you live, your relationships, the situations surrounding your life, and the way you believe other people see you-as mirrors showing you "Who You Are.

— Chris Prentiss

The advertisement their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pilot Noir, or if they put bubbles in an ethanol product and call it champagne or beer-everyone is selling ethanol.

— Chris Prentiss

The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discovered.

— Chris Prentiss