Emotional Balance - Outpatient Addiction Treatment
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OUTPATIENT ADDICTION TREATMENT PROGRAM
HOW MANY SYMPTOMS CAN YOU TICK?
Do you drink or use drugs to stop feeling bad?
Use drugs to forget painful memories?
Spend much of your time thinking about your next drink?
Spend much of your money on your addiction
Isolate more and more?
People telling you that you have a problem?
Don't think you have a problem?
Lost friends or family because of your addiction?
Spend much of your spare time drinking or using drugs?
Can't fall asleep unless you have had a drink or used drugs?
Can't cope without drinking or using drugs
Have to use more and more to get the same euphoric feelings?
Are most of your associates/friends using or drinking like you?
Can't go without a few days without drinking or using drugs?
Wake up wanting or needing a drink or use drugs? If you have
ticked yes to more than 4 of the above questions,
I would suggest that your addiction is slowly but surely
affecting many areas of your life.
Maybe you have attempted time and time again to take control over
your life but have gone back to old behaviours that no longer serve
you well? Perhaps you have
wanted to change your current life, have meaningful relationships,
a fulfilling career but believed that your lack of willpower is
failing you.
You know, addiction does not have to control your life,
and you can overcome this with the right help and assistance. Over
the years I have worked
with thousands of addicted people and during this time I have
learned many reasons why
people become addicted. I have a saying that:
"addiction is nothing more than an external
manifestation of internal turmoil" .
A few years ago while I was still working at a Drug and Alcohol
Rehabilitation Centre, I conducted a pilot study that looked at the
level of Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
of people with an addiction. My research found that the more an
addiction had a hold on someone the less
Emotional Intelligence there was. This does not mean that people are
less intelligent, but that they are
less emotionally aware of three basic things:
* Understand yourself emotionally
* Understand others emotions
* How the above two points affect a relationship
The Living Free (Life) program is an Outpatient Drug, Alcohol and
other addiction program that assists you to increase your Emotional
Intelligence. By learning
about yourself emotionally, how to deal with emotionally difficult
situations and understand
the effects your behaviours have on other people, especially those
that love you.
The Living Free from your addiction program also works on increasing
your self-esteem by learning
to focus on the important things in life; love, fun and fulfillment,
and it achieves that by teaching
you to understand your core beliefs.
The Living Free program has 27 sessions, which were all designed to
help you understand why you have an addiction, what you need to
change in your life, what to watch
out for, and most important how to maintain a addiction free life.
All of these sessions are focused
on increasing your Emotional Intelligence through interactive and
challenging homework tasks. See the
for an idea what you will learn. Also click here or to see a
sample of the program.
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