Workshops
Routine and habits
Developing and sticking with a routine that is congruent with your goals is one of the surest ways to ensure success in your recovery.
There's a misconception that routine means a dull, rigid and stifling lifestyle. A belief that living in a whimsical, capricious way will free up more time. In fact, it's the opposite. Designing an intentional daily routine brings peace, harmony, and freedom. It breathes air into productivity. We become more efficient, have fewer decisions to make and reduce our need to plan. A routine predetermines your schedule, and saves your most valuable resource: time.
Often, the smallest changes in our behaviour provide the most life-changing results. With far-reaching psychological benefits, good habits allow you to carve out time for what really matters - and strengthen your recovery.
Routine
Routine removes chaos, and creates a logical sequence in life.
Perhaps most importantly for healthy recovery, having a solid routine removes chaos, and creates structure and a logical sequence in your life. It provides the framework in which you can live your life and experience flow to your day. The repetition of a solid routine also helps to eradicate bad habits that don't serve you.
Routine also reduces the need for determination and willpower because it becomes a daily ritual. It simply becomes, well, routine!
Habits
The smallest changes in our behaviour provide the most life-changing results.
Habits are so ingrained in our lives that we’re not actually conscious of most of them. Developing awareness of what we do with the glorious 24 hours that we have each day can help us consciously make decisions to improve our habits and, as a result, improve our lives.
Workshops
Available 1:1 or for private groups.
Why do we thrive on routine? What is the neuroscience of habits? How do we navigate the ‘habit loop’ effectively? In this workshop you’ll learn about all those things and work on creating a new routine and habits that stick.
This is perfect for you if you’re:
- looking for a deep dive into designing a personal routine that works for you
- ready to develop good habits that match - or help you towards - your goals and aspirations.
Workshops are available as 1:1 or for private groups. Please use the contact form to get in touch.
What is recovery coaching?
Recovery coaching is a non-clinical, self-directed, strengths-based partnership between coach and client with the goal of achieving long-term recovery and improved quality of life.
As a recovery coach, I help individuals on the path of recovery, before, during, and after treatment. I assist clients with identifying and overcoming barriers to recovery, including stigma and shame.
What are the benefits of recovery coaching?
Triggers will be alive in our day-to-day world, so it’s imperative to create a watertight strategy to manage how we react to those threats to recovery.
By being strategic, having a coach, and putting a structure in place for your recovery, you’ll have the best opportunity for long term recovery.
Some of the many benefits include:
- My assistance with navigating your recovery journey
- Learning evidence-based tools for behavioural change
- Habit forming and goal setting
- Adopting a more balanced and holistic approach to life
- Developing effective practices to help with emotional regulation
- Mindfulness practices for stress reduction and resilience
- Accountability and ongoing support.
How do I know if recovery coaching is for me?
I provide coaching for individuals who are seeking a supportive and proactive coach to stay aligned to what they want to achieve in life and ensure they maintain intentional, strong recovery. This includes identifying and overcoming barriers to recovery, including stigma and shame.
Recovery coaching might be for you if you:
- have just finished a rehab program
- are under pressure in your executive role
- are looking to strengthen your recovery journey
- are feeling ‘wobbly’ and overwhelmed with too much on your plate with work, family life and recovery.
How do sessions work?
Sessions are online, which is least disruptive to your day and allows us to work together wherever you are in the world.
Each session is 60 minutes. However, if there is greater urgency for change, I offer 90 minute appointments.
I usually coach clients once a week for a minimum of 8 weeks. We then review progress and decide whether further sessions would be useful. Later in a coaching program, fortnightly or monthly sessions can be suitable.
However, people are individuals, and each coaching arrangement is unique and tailored to meet the goals you want to achieve. Many of my clients contract my services as a long-term, ongoing agreement. Some need intense coaching support for a week or more when they first leave a treatment centre. In our initial call, we will discuss the best option for you.
What is your approach?
As your recovery coach I will help you identify your blind spots or triggers, and work with you to develop and strengthen a set of tools to keep you on track, even in the most challenging situations. I’ll also be there to ground you with support, guidance and accountability for when things feel tough.
While recovery from substance use is the primary focus, I address your whole life, encompassing health and wellness, self-care, and coping skills.
My coaching method includes evidence-based psychological and behaviour change methods, and neuroscience. I do not ascribe to one particular pathway – my approach honours individuality. I tailor our work together using a range of strategies for the best outcomes.
I help you dive deep into your purpose, your ‘raison d’être’, and your motivation for your recovery journey. This helps you work out what you want, most importantly why you want it, and what could be stopping you, before we create a plan of action together.