Untangling the world of addictions by Sarina Wheatman This is my friend’s gift to you. Real-world recovery. The power, pain and program that makes up a life. How do you stay sober? Reality Recovery invites you to make space for this. Good days. Bad days. Good Luck. Bad Luck. Grace & Favour. Robbers & wretches. […]
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RedChair Specialist Addiction Service. Interventions, counselling, treatment, therapy, recovery coaching
ACT Today
Upon awakening your mind is full of your autopilot history ready to advise and guide you to do what you have always done. This is not always aiming for the outcome you wish! ACT – Acceptance Commitment Therapy Accept uncomfortable feelings, thoughts and sensations Choose my values Take ACTion ACT Daily Exercise Five Senses Grounding […]
Higher Perspective
Higher Perspective How do you do what matters, no matter what? How do you move out from being stuck, rigid, inflexible? We all hit points in our lives when this becomes an experience. One way to start to move again is to take a higher perspective, to notice with compassion what is in play. I […]
Client Feedback – Nice
Btw my friend who you recommended RedChair therapy to gave me some feedback and said he has been brilliant and life changing A therapist passed this on to me a moment ago. It was sent by text, copied and pasted here. I still am in awe of what we can achieve with ACT – Acceptance […]
From A Dark Place. Tony & Paul Husband
“I wanted to keep it simple because people respond to simplicity, I think,” Tony says. “There was a lot of misery in our lives, but I didn’t want to go overboard. I just wanted it to resonate.”
ACT Just For Today
ACT Today It is likely that 90% of what you think about, that overwhelms, challenges, induces stress etc is not actually happening in the here and now, but our minds looking out for threats. Being able to ground yourself in the here and now as often as possible is a useful tool. I invite you […]
It’s Football
It’s Football To you heroes of the roundball game, who come rain or shine, lace up the boots, pull on the shirt and take to the field, I wish you well. Prepare yourselves well. Your kit, your body, your mind and your soul. Improve. There is one thing you can improve upon each and […]
Feel Stuck? Intervention ACT now.
ACT Interventions Ground-hog day behaviours, feelings, same old same old? ACT Interventions move everyone towards goals and away from stuck patterns. Acceptance Commitment Therapy, A.C.T. suggests we only move towards goal in ways conducive to our values. Sometimes this is really difficult, but we accept the difficulty, even if we could avoid discomfort by old […]
Bill Stevens Presenting @ Recovery+ & Intervention+
Training, Education, Insight, Opportunity, Networking, Credits…. Recovery Plus: 22 May 2015, Hilton London Save time, save lives – do you increasingly encounter patients/clients with alcohol or drug problems? If so, benefit from this intense fully-rounded ‘crash course’ in how to recover from addiction: from the basics to neuroscience to mutual-aid groups to LGBT, BME, factors […]
Drug Driving – Drugalyser – Or? Intervene, Before It Happens
Worried that a loved one is drug driving? We routinely attend court as part of a mitigation plea regarding a person’s untreated addiction to alcohol or drugs, an untreated condition that is best treated, rather than punitive punishment measures. When the court hears that a persons drink or drugs use was a problem that went […]
