Monthly Archives: November 2015

Today in the group we explored goals and aspirations by using some SMART Recovery tools.  First of all we had a think about what were the top five things that we valued most in life e.g. Family, health, peace of mind e.t.c.  From these we began to think of what would we like to haveContinue reading “Goals”

One of the aims of the Choose Life group is to help people to be more self-aware.  Self-awareness can help us to reflect on how we respond to situations or people, and when we know this, we will recognise what is difficult for us and we can then put boundaries into place to help us toContinue reading “Looking at the bigger picture”

We discussed what happens in the brain when there is a traumatic event.  Trauma is defined by the Royal college of psychiatrists as: “…events which undermine our sense that life is fair, that it is reasonably safe and that we are secure. A traumatic experience makes it very clear that we can die at any time.  TheContinue reading “More than a survivor”