RedChair Recovery
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Understanding the Crucial Difference Between Enabling and Helping in Family Interventions
At Red Chair Recovery Specialist Therapy Service, we’re committed to providing top-notch intervention services to families and individuals across the UK, especially in the beautiful Northwest of England. We understand that when it comes to family interventions, it’s essential to comprehend the subtle yet impactful difference between enabling and helping. In this blog, we’ll break…
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Apricity – The warmness of the sun in winter
Apricity, the warmth of the sun on a cold winter day, is a feeling that can bring joy and happiness to anyone who experiences it. For those in sobriety, finding apricity can be crucial to living a rich and meaningful life. Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a powerful tool that can help those in recovery…
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SandStorm – SandSerene
Sandstorm of feelings. No longer, using the ACT sandserene exercise for urges, compulsions, obsessions, anxiety, anger. Especially effective for withdrawals.
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Tactical Abstinence Programme
An overview of the ultra modern approach to substance and alcohol use in the professional classes.
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Acceptance
Acceptance: making room for painful feelings, urges and sensations, and allowing them to come and go without a struggle. In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), acceptance refers to the process of allowing ourselves to experience difficult thoughts, feelings, and sensations without trying to avoid or control them. This involves an attitude of openness and willingness…
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Values
In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), values refer to the core principles and beliefs that guide our actions and give meaning to our lives. These values might include things like compassion, honesty, connection, or adventure, and they are often based on what we care about most deeply. In ACT, values are not just abstract ideas;…
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Defusion
In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), defusion refers to the process of letting go of our unhelpful thoughts and beliefs and finding a new perspective on them. This may entail realising that our thoughts are merely ideas and conjured up images in our minds and that they are not facts or realities over which we…
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Self
In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), the self can be conceptualized in different ways. The “self as context” refers to the observing and compassionate part of the self that is able to take a step back and witness one’s own thoughts and feelings without being overwhelmed by them. This part of the self is able…
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Boredom -A misunderstood friend?
Radical Acceptance is designed for addictive creative types when abstinence and sobriety collide. The RedChair ACT Pathway Programme is designed to help people overcome their fears and blockages through creativity and self-acceptance, and open up a new path of self-discovery.
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Soberpreneurial
You Can Do This Those in active recovery, and maintaining a life based on abstinence are already amazing. Climbing out of addiction, into recovery is incredible. For some, this can soon feel suffocating, not compelling, and somehow not enough. Like you have an itch you can not scratch. Grateful of course for a life of…