Rehab explained
Rehab – what is it?
Rehabilitation normally refers to a place and process that one goes to deal with alcohol or substance overuse that has become health threatening. It can also be used to describe the period of withdrawal during when a body is returning to normal after a prolonged period using an addictive substance. This may include alcohol, opiates, marijuana, amphetamines as well as prescription drugs such as antidepressants, pain medication and sleeping tablets.
Why doesn’t conventional rehab work?
If it worked we would not be seeing guests that have done it multiple times. You wouldn’t take your car back to a mechanic 8 times to fix the same problem, why would you take your body and mind? The saddest and most frustrating part about guests that have done rehab multiple times is that that do not think the system failed them, they think they failed.
“I have done rehab 8 times, every time the periods between stints became smaller and smaller. I did Palladium once at the insistence of my family as I just thought it was going to be one more thing that didn’t work. What I didn’t realize is I needed to understand the WHY behind my drug use, now I know and drugs are a thing I used to do.” David Houghton October 2009
Why Palladium Private does work for rehabilitation
Clients suffering from addiction make up the third largest group attending these programs. Palladium Private’s approach to addiction is completely different to traditional methods that are low on results. Our solution has four major components:
- We only use Fountainhead Method ™, trained life coaches. “The Fountainhead Method™ is the number one system for understanding stress and its application to health in the world today” [1]
- Journey Therapy supports it. Developed originally by American author Brandon bays similar to time line therapy but different in that the focuses is not only to identify your patterns of behavior and its origin-but to change the pattern then and there. “Where was this when I was studying psychology at University”[2]
- It is underpinned by Mindfulness training, which has existed for millennia but has only been explained scientifically the last twenty years. “One has to try to develop one’s inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one’s mind.” [3]
- A highly nutritious organic diet to give the body the essential components it needs to fuel the mechanics of detoxification. This is combined with gentle exercise and massage to assist the body to move toxins out; we have a multitude of therapies to choose from for the physical change but long term permanent change is always done with the first three components.
“I have done a physical detox many times but never achieved the results i wanted, I now know what I needed was to combine this with what I like to call a mental or emotional detox, I needed to look at how the way I thought affected my need to use drugs to cope with life!, the change was profound thanks to everyone” Ange Smithe, May 2011.
What the experts say
The Anti Depression Association of Australia (ADAA); recently interviewed author Michelle Mark who confirms this new approach to treatment for addiction: “When you are experiencing addiction, , the real work needed to reduce it for the long term is not done by just addressing the physical addiction. This is a temporary solution at best. Changing the root cause of that emotional response which substance is being used to cope with does the real work. Those who suffer from addiction must look beyond just the physical, and go back to the reasons why they started using in the first place. The Fountainhead Method™ shows you how to do this”.
Length of Stay-recommendation
Palladium Private Programs of 28 days are normally sufficient for the education of most addiction disorders. For Chronic addiction , we recommend the full two months.
[1]Quote from Michelle Mark, author, 28days To Beat The Blues
[2]Quote from Cassandra Hackett, Psychologist and previous attendee of the program.
[3] Quote from His Holiness the Dalai Lama
