When nothing else worked, we created a holistic, hand-tailored program that saved Pax's life. At Passages, he and I use what we learned in curing him to help others discover the roots of their addiction or alcoholism and break free.

— Chris Prentiss

When people who believe themselves to be addicts or alcoholics come under great stress or trauma, they mentally give themselves permission to drink or use drugs as a remedy.

— Chris Prentiss

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

— Chris Prentiss

When you imagine yourself as a failure or as having insurmountable problems in your relationships or any part of your life, you think failure, act failure, and produce failure.

— Chris Prentiss

When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let it happen. Sometimes it takes a little while, but it always works.

— Chris Prentiss

Whether the underlying cause of your dependency is a chemical imbalance, unresolved events from the past, beliefs you hold that are inconsistent with what is true, an inability to cope with current conditions, or a combination of these four causes, know this: not only are all the causes of dependency within you, but all the solutions are within you as well.

— Chris Prentiss

Who you allow into the circle of your life will make the difference in the quality of your life.

— Chris Prentiss

You are a perfect spiritual being. Get used to that idea.

— Chris Prentiss

You are not alone in your quest to be who you want and have what you want.

— Chris Prentiss

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. Furthermore, you have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

— Chris Prentiss