#recover

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#addiction #board #center #columbia #columbia university

Why couldn’t I find one action that would make the need to binge automatically disappear? Because there is no magic action to make that horrible prebinge feeling go away. The cool thing is that we are designed so that the feeling will pass through us on its own—in time. All we have to do is sit there and feel what is going on inside of us. We must experience the feelings. To help us deal with the feelings, we can call someone on our support team. We can also express the feelings by focusing on our breath or even hitting a pillow. The important thing to remember is that no matter how terrible, feelings do pass. It takes patience and trust—not food . . . ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#eating-disorder #emotions #feelings #patience #recovery

I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#healing #pen #remedy #self-esteem #self-recovery

It was indeed not very sound. However, those who had taken it, were in a fairer way of recovery than the others at the end of the fortnight, which was the length of time all these different courses were continued, except the oranges. ↗

— James Lind

#courses #different #end #except #fairer

Success is always something that you have to recover from. ↗

— Marsha Norman

#recover #something #success #success is #you

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#economic #economic recovery #full #italy #japan

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath. ↗

— Donna Rice

#had #i #incident #only #press

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets. ↗

— Tim Scott

#bad people #basis #economic #economic recovery #free

I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#could #happened #her #i #kissing

Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#always #like #lying #recovering #you