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Madness of our Drug and Alcohol Policy and Interventions. WARNING: CONTROVERSIAL OPINION. Today was a reckoning for me. A reminder of the insanity of addiction and the folly that is our current treatment ethos.  Harm reduction. Today, I was privileged to observe, for an hour or so, the operation of an established community based drug and alcohol treatment project, employing  around 50 staff, and providing services to 100s of clients, Based in a typical northern town that migh

We talk a lot about trauma these days and rightly so. Talking therapies help many people make sense of what happened to them. They bring insight, language and understanding. But here's the part that often gets missed. Understanding trauma is not the same as releasing it. Trauma doesn't just live in the mind. It lives in the body Every cell in your body carries memory. Not memory as a story you can explain, but memory as tension, sensation, reflex and habit. When survival is i

I have lived with my head bowed, as I have witnessed your derision of your worth. It causes me pain to see you allow this within your being. Stand tall and straight and be not a light under a bushel but a beacon. Are you afraid to shine on others? This is your job this time, to be an example, not an instrument of their ways. Let not your light be dimmed by others' darkness. Let not their fears and prejudices be your guide. If you want to look at the light, look at yourself, t

There's a belief that people only change when they 'hit rock bottom'. The big crash. The dramatic collapse. The moment everything finally snaps. But real life rarely gives you a clean, cinematic collapse. Most people don't fall off a cliff they hang on with their fingertips slowly loosening their grip one finger at a time. They quietly wear themselves down, repeating the same patterns, hoping for a different result. And one day they realise: this isn't working . That moment-t

Most people come to Kinesiology because something just isn't right. A nagging pain. A foggy head. A mood that's dipped and refuses to climb back up. Or that unsettling feeling of being ' out of alignment ' - like you're doing your best but you're just not firing on all cylinders. Kinesiology steps in exactly where other approaches often stop: it listens to the whole person not just the loudest symptom. And that, oddly enough, is why it helps with so many physical, mental and

When most people hear the word recovery, they picture treatment centres, diagnoses, or life changing-crises. But the truth is far quieter, far more ordinary, and far more human: Recovery is for anyone. Its for the people who haven't collapsed... but are running on empty. Its for the ones who look 'fine' on the surface but feel completely disconnected underneath. It's for those who have slowly drifted away from themselves without even realising it. Sometimes we go Missing In A

Author Unknown Some sayings hit you right in the chest and this one does exactly that. It's raw, uncomfortable, and painfully accurate for anyone who's ever walked the long road of recovery. People often talk about healing as if it's a straight climb into the light - clean, gentle, uplifting. But the truth is far less tidy. Recovery isn't the beginning of some imagined heaven. |It's the moment you realise you've been living in a kind of hell without even noticing the heat. Th

Have you ever had a panic attack so intense it felt like the world was closing in, and that you were convinced you were about to die? Have you ever felt anxiety so strong that the thought of leaving your home - even for something simple - seemed impossible? Have you ever had to plan your day minute-by-minute just to manage basic tasks? For many people this isn't a bad day or a rough patch. It's daily life. When Everyday Tasks Become Mountains Agoraphobia isn't simply 'being