Addiction Specialist in Huddersfield
Date: September 2024
Following on from my previous blog ‘The Dark Days' I wrote previously about The Dark Days, and my life of addiction, this blog is about the rebuilding of my life once I had hit that rock, rock bottom. It was 14th January 2016, I had been thrown out of home, spent 3 days in the […]
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Date: July 2024
In many of my blogs I talk about my own personal experience of addiction, and yet I haven’t really spoken specifically about it, maybe snippets here and there. So thought it is well overdue for me to tell you about my experience. Looking back on it now, I say it was an unfortunate and fortunate […]
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Date: March 2024
There is an endless list of tools and techniques for us to use for a whole range of challenges and self-development. From my personal experience, I found them to have too many steps or stages and found myself focusing more on the technical aspects than what I was using them for. Don't get me wrong […]
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Date: February 2024
We tend to focus on the future, where we want to be, and what will it look like, and that tends to be mostly material things. The emotional side comes second place a lot, “I want to feel better about myself”, “I want to feel loved” or “I want to feel secure in my job”. […]
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Date: September 2023
I had one of those moments recently where I stopped and appreciated where I was in life. It wasn’t planned or even expected, it was a very nice surprise. No matter how many people tell us how well we are doing, it is not until we say it to ourselves does it sink in. I […]
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Date: May 2023
I'd like to tell you a story of where a thought about a humble pie took me. My brain never stops thinking of ideas: content for posts, how I can tweak techniques to suit a client, and the things I should be doing but am not. However, when it comes to Facebook lives, I have […]
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Date: January 2023
We are coming to the end of that period of the year when a lot of people go full-throttle into making the changes that they want to make. Usually, the same ones as last year, and the year before that. Rinse and repeat: lose weight, get fitter, save money, curb the drinking, the list is […]
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Date: December 2022
Making New Year’s resolutions is very much a tradition. We make them with the best intentions, however, there is a chasm in the number of resolutions we make and those where the intended outcome matches our goals. We work on them for a period, but, with time, our efforts wane. Then, we give up; usually because we […]
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Date: November 2022
With the current cost-of-living crisis and the looming spectre of recession, people tend to put engaging with therapy on the back burner. As much as that can help with some of the stress of the situation in the near term, it will also make dealing with today’s challenges much harder in the future as it […]
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Date: February 2022
As soon as someone admits that they have a problem with alcohol, the immediate go-to suggestion other than your GP tends to be AA (Alcohol Anonymous). The Anonymous groups such as AA, Narcotics Anonymous (NA), Cocaine Anonymous (CA)and Overeaters Anonymous (OA) are a few of the 'fellowships' as they are known within the recovery community […]
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