Category: RedChair Specialist Addiction Service

RedChair Specialist Addiction Service. Interventions, counselling, treatment, therapy, recovery coaching

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 freedom from addiction, yet somehow, an unresolved natural sense of needing to explore new vistas, dreams, and yearnings that seem to be based on career, and vocational aspirations. Get Better, Be Better and now, open up to launching a potential that simmers within you. Do Better.
Ask Yourself:
What is it you really love, that floats your boat, and interests you?
What do you have a passion and talent for?
What is your purpose if you could really be free to flourish?
If you could earn money doing what you love, what would it be?
What is your amazing ambition, that your creative, capable, committed self, with talent and transformative support, really wants to do with your life?
Join the Soberpreneurial Development Group where we nurture dreams and find ways to make them come true. Start by calling us 0800 530 0012 and let’s find out what you want, exploring how to make that happen. It will be fun, furious, and hard at times.
Experience teaches us that there is one life, and unresolved dreams are a regret one should not have to shoulder.
How Does It Work
Consult with us on the dream, the idea, and the yearning for some kind of pathway, and we will collaborate with you, showing you how it could come to life. We start where you are at, make a plan that fits you, and work with you to make that happen. Working on a business idea is a process of action, accumulating tasks that build and acquire momentum. You just need to show up and ask for help. We will guide you.
Make The Call
Bill on 0800 530 0012
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
Nelson Mandela
19th September 2022
Wires Untwisting
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. Put down the booze or pills, get a recovery program and get ready for life. Following on from her first book, Twisted Wires, Sarina holds your hand and takes you into the real world of addiction and recovery. Untwisting wires, becoming unstuck, untangled whilst life is anything but.
Sarina shares her experiences, that you may be better prepared for yours.
Life. It will happen, it will be yours and this is how it can be hell and heaven. This is also how learning to Untwist Wires invites you to step into and be a part of all of your life, your journey and future.
Sarina shares how she went about her dreams and hopes with addiction with all its highs and lows. Then you learn how she goes about her dreams and hopes using active recovery with the 12 step program.
Your life. My life. Get ready for the journey. Booze or drugs are not discriminative. They affect all of you.
Sarina and her recovery is a clear invitation. Make a choice and accept the consequences, all of them. Just allow yourself this one gift. Do it from active recovery.
Purchasing & Reading
Here is a link to the paperback on Amazon. Just Click on the image. You will see that for Amazon Prime Unlimited members, you can read it for free. Hope you enjoy it and give Sarina positive feedback on the site.
7th October 2019
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
1. Five Senses Grounding – Mindfully notice the present moment.
  1. Notice sense of touch
  2. Notice sense of smell
  3. Notice sense of taste
  4. Notice sense of seeing
  5. Notice sense of hearing
2. Ask yourself,
  1. Who is important to me today?
  2. What is important to me today?
3. What will I do today? My to-do list?
  1. Towards behaviors list
4. What uncomfortable feelings show up that I will hold lightly?
  1. I am willing to have a normal human feeling off ……….
5. What will my mind tell me that is not so helpful today?
  1. Thanks mind for the thought of ………!
6. What can helpers today?
  1. Values
  2. Morals
  3. Principles
  4. Personal character strengths
7. What can I do right now that is a towards behaviour?
Unwanted Feelings Techniques:
Notice the feeling. Where is it in my body? Breathe around it, and then choose to give it physical qualities as a way of defusing from it. Try to notice its location, size, shape, temperature, texture, weight, colour. Name it. It could be anger, shame, anxiety, fear, depression, guilt, hopelessness, procrastination, frustration, etc. Imagine taking it out of your body. Observe it as something that shows up in you. Mindfully tell yourself.
“I am a normal human being having a normal feeling”. Be willing to put it back in your body, and bring it with you as you go about your day. It is something you have rather than something you are. I am having the feeling of “X” is very different to the fused “I am X”.
Unwanted Thoughts Techniques:
Stepping Back.
What thought (“The Thought”) is hooking you, that you feel really stuck to and stuck with?
1 Step back. I am having the thought that .. (“The Thought”)
2 Steps back. I notice that I am having the thought that …(“The Thought”)
Thanking the mind.
“Thanks for that mind” is a way to step away from a thought, and then see if it is towards or away thought in the context of your values living today?
Values:
Family. Health. Work. Home. Friends. Social. Legal. Environment. Hobbies.
Principles, Morals, Ethics, Character Strengths
Acceptance Consistent Acceptance Considerate Consistent Courageous Dependable Disciplined Dignity Flexible Forgiving Friendly Generous Helpful Honest Humility Kindliness Lawful Love Loyalty Open-minded Patience Rational Realistic Respectful Selfless Serene Social Spiritual Steady Tolerance Thoughtful Trusting Warm Welcoming Willing
22nd July 2019
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 do not see the world the way it is, I see the world the way I AM.
I do not see the world the way it is. I see the world the way I AM
You can notice what is most in play for you right now. You can observe where you are at, what is guiding your behaviours. I invite you to actively notice, and then choose what suits you best in moving you towards who and what is important to you.
9th October 2018
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 Commitment Therapy. Maybe it was alcohol problems or anxiety, or maybe it was depression. Could have been drug problems, or gambling. Intrusive thoughts, problems at work. Often it is health or work environments where some or all of this stuff shows up. If a life is lost to the struggle and feels stuck, then why not have a life-changing moment by way of therapy with RedChair?
Who do you know who is stuck? Struggling? With clinics in Wilmslow and Hale Barns, we aim to make therapy appropriate, affordable, available, unique.. and life-changing.
12th April 2018
From A Dark Place. Tony & Paul Husband
From A Dark Place goes beyond words to a place that is beyond words in this emotive share of a family visited by addiction.
It was my privilege to visit and support this family. Tony Husband shows his skills in conveying the hell and heaven visited upon them all by addiction and then emergence into recovery and freedom.
The book is available this week on Amazon. Order it here.
From A Dark Place: How A Family Coped With Drug Addiction
Thank you Tony for showing the day I came to help. Well done Paul for accepting the help.
Thankyou for being part of Paul’s recovery you came at our lowest point and started the process. (Tony Husband 2017)
4th February 2017
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 to choose to notice, to really notice, what are you seeing right now, hearing right now, touching right now, tasting right now and able to smell right now?
Choosing to notice the difference between our minds activity about our reality and our reality is often the key to a rich and meaningful life today.
We are not our thoughts, but we do have them. “I am having the thought that…” and then “I am noticing I am having the thought that…..” This is a pragmatic and flexible approach to our thoughts. I invite you to notice your thoughts you are having, to perceive them. Some are really useful and need action in the here and now. 90% are just our minds doing what our minds do.
15th June 2016
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 every game, in every corner of the pitch, in every minute, in every moment, you can improve. Yourself.
Set yourself goals as naturally as you would breathe. Set personal goals for each and every gym session, training session, every meal you eat and every game you play. You can improve.

So, today, wherever you play, may you take to the field with your mind, your heart, your body, your soul, your desire, your character and all that you are, secure in the knowledge that you are a King, a player of the wonderful game, privileged to step out onto the green stage, to perform and bring life to all who feel every moment with you.
All the best for today.
Its Football.
9th April 2016
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 patterns of avoiding, procrastinating, or in the case of family interventions, enabling.
Enabling is an away behaviour used to give short term avoidance of fear, shame, guilt, hopelessness, but it is an away behaviour. It resolves nothing for the family, or the addict who still suffers.
Acceptance Commitment Therapy underpins process interventions in a simple practical manner.
Bill Stevens is a specialist addictions therapist who uses Acceptance Commitment Therapy within the Family Intervention process.
If you are stuck with another persons untreated addiction we can help. 0800 5300012
2nd November 2015
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 in the elderly vs youngsters, and more. You will meet more people and learn more at Recovery Plus than you could from months of research. Organised in response to demand: www.recoveryplusdb.com.
Interventions Plus: 23 May, Hilton London
Speed reluctant addicts into recovery – for families and professionals who want to add a 2nd string to their career. Chaired by Rebecca Flood, immediate past president of the Association of Intervention Specialists.
Bill Stevens C.I.P. of RedChair is a guest speaker and will be presenting on Friday Afternoon, and is part of the panel on Saturday.

Please sign up and attend this fantastic event with speakers from all over the world. Hear what you need to from the best in the business.
19th May 2015