The Connected Center is here to help with addiction
The Connected Center is here to offer Alcohol and Drug Addiction help. The Center was established to help those in addiction and their families heal and recover from drug and alcohol dependency. We offer Addiction Counselling services.
I am an Addiction Recovery Specialist. my personal experience and professional training can enable me to help you & your family recover from dependency.
My Personal Experience
I know first hand the damage dependency can do to families. My father was an alcoholic, and for four years I knew something was wrong with my husband. We had a two-year-old daughter and I was pregnant when he began to change from the man I knew and loved. I came to question everything I knew to be true. I had no idea that he was struggling with and hiding a methamphetamine dependency. By the time I found out, I’d had enough – I was ready to leave. You can read more about my journey here.
My approach to providing Drug Addiction Treatment.
My approach is simple: loving boundaries, understanding and self-care.
It takes courage to face addiction and furthermore to learn new ways of being you, to forgive yourself and others and to build a life worth living.
For families; when you truly understand that the addiction isn’t anyone’s fault, that you can’t control it, and that arguments and threats don’t work – that’s when you’ll stop blaming and start healing. Read more about how Substance Abuse affects families.
Learning to practice self-compassion is important:
Treat yourself as someone you are responsible to care for, as someone you are responsible for protecting. Think about how you care for a friend. Practice mindfulness. Mindfulness is an antidote to the self-critic as well as negative rumination. Remember that you’re not alone. Other people have walked this journey and have had similar experiences.
Work with a supportive therapist or coach. Cultivating new thought patterns and behaviour takes hard work and you don’t need to do this alone.
Read more about the importance of self-compassion.
Drug Addiction Help: Your journey to wellness
Is your substance use impacting your life?
Do you find yourself needing more?
Thinking about your next use or recovering from your past use more often than not?
Are your loved ones showing concern?
Is your substance use a cause of arguments or resentments has it distanced you from those you love?
Does any of this sound familiar?
Addiction is a curable disease consequently, it is not a moral failing or due to lack of willpower. You do need support education and understanding to begin to recover from addiction.
In the video below Nora Volkow, a world leader in the neurobiology of diseases of reward and self-control shares research showing how drugs affect the human brain. Nora’s research has been instrumental in demonstrating that addiction is a brain disease. The disease undermines the function of circuits that underlie reward, motivation and self-control.
You might find this article helpful: What’s happening inside that brain of yours.
When you take the substance away there is not enough naturally occurring dopamine to feel okay, there is often no interest in life – (in early recovery it is not uncommon for people to enter a state of depression). Furthermore, the inability to feel pleasure contributes to “cravings” which are physiologically highly uncomfortable that can influence a decision to keep using or precipitate a lapse following a period of abstinence.
The good news is that the brain can recover and learn new ways of functioning this however takes time. Read more about what is happening inside your brain
Take the steps to recovery
I will provide a safe and profession place for you to begin to understand your addiction and navigate your recovery.
My approach is centred on your wellbeing, learning new behaviours and thought patterns, increasing self-efficacy and mastery in your life – a life without the prison of addiction.
Contact me today for an appointment M: 0212316272