PRACTICING, NOTICING & FOCUSING Human beings quite often become human “doings”. We often don’t notice that we’re not actually focusing on what we’re doing even whilst in the very process of doing it! We just do and don’t feel or be; we’re not actually present. Mindful Noticing brings our attention back to what we’re [...]
There is nothing wrong with you, just the way you are dealing with your thoughts Just knowing accurate information about unwanted intrusive thoughts will make them less distressing Your commentary in the form of the back and forth arguments between "Worried Voice" & "False Comfort" can be the most distressing aspect [...]
by Bradley Riddell MBACP 07914 681995 bradrid@gmail.com Understanding the cycle Understanding the cycle of addiction is crucial to the recovery process for many. It is seen, for example, as the single most important intervention by men in a group therapy recovery treatment at the Marylebone Centre run by Thaddeus Birchard in Paddington, London. In broad [...]
By Bradley Riddell Maidstone & Brighton bradrid@gmail.com www.addiction-Counselling.org.uk 07914 681995 Tempering A Craving - A Technique For Urges If ever you feel in the grip of a compulsive, obsessional urge & want to resist it but can’t seem to find a way here’s a technique you might want to give a go? Pre Frontal Cortex [...]
By Bradley Riddell Maidstone & Brighton bradrid@gmail.com www.addiction-Counselling.org.uk 07914 681995 1) THE 4 R’s 2) M.I.Q’s 3) THOUGHT LABELLING THE 4 R’s A FOUR STEP LOOP METHOD TO BE RUN AS AN INTERNAL DIALOGICAL PROGRAMME TO HEIGHTEN AWARENESS OF OUR TRIGGERED STATE IN THAT MOMENT OR MOMENTS OF TEMPTATION LEST WE FALL BACK INTO OUR [...]
By Bradley Riddell Maidstone & Brighton bradrid@gmail.com www.addiction-Counselling.org.uk 07914 681995 Couples Counselling Therapist in Private Practice in Brighton and Maidstone Couples counselling is for relationships that aren’t accomplishing what they once upon a time used to and both parties are feeling the strain of knowing that what they once had seems to be slipping further [...]
By Bradley Riddell Maidstone & Brighton bradrid@gmail.com www.addiction-Counselling.org.uk 07914 681995 THE TEN PILLARS: AN EXERCISE IN COGNITIVE NEURAL RESTRUCTURING OR REWIRING SPECIFICALLY TO TREAT SEX & PORN ADDICTION by Bradley Riddell an Addiction Counselling Therapist based in Brighton and Maidstone This exercise is essentially one of repetitious practice to effect long lasting and automatic, instinctual [...]
By Bradley Riddell Maidstone & Brighton bradrid@gmail.com www.addiction-Counselling.org.uk 07914 681995 Integrative Counselling Therapist in Private Practice in Brighton & Maidstone As an 'addiction specialist' – and I put that in inverted commas not through any pompous pretence to claim to be what the tag describes, but rather to question its efficacy and plausibility – I [...]
By Bradley Riddell Maidstone & Brighton bradrid@gmail.com www.addiction-Counselling.org.uk 07914 681995 Is there a part of me that wants to feel better? Even if it’s just ten percent or even one percent? If there is then your healing journey is all poised and ready to go. All it needs is your say so. All it needs [...]
By Bradley Riddell Maidstone & Brighton bradrid@gmail.com www.addiction-Counselling.org.uk 07914 681995 "I don't want to die so why am I doing this" This was said to me by a client I was seeing who used alcohol to the point where he'd been admitted to rehab so many times he was being told if he didn't stop [...]
