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.In our experience this is not true , but the right information needs to be applied to deal with the reasons a person started using in the first place and to break the cycle of rehab for good.

“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®  developed here onsite is an educational technique that examines the way a human being suffering a stress based illness, such as depression or anxiety, is thinking and processing the events of their life. This is based on the core belief structures they mainly developed at an early age and how the processing of reality through these core belief structures or as we call them “lenses” causes unwanted behaviour and emotional symptoms. It unpacks where a person learnt their views on life as well as how they measure their self-worth. The information learnt in this process takes the sufferer’s incorrect or incomplete beliefs, which are based on misinterpretations of the past, and re-educates them to look at the same past experiences objectively and with the goal to understand, learn and grow from them which changes the underlying cause of their unwanted behaviour and emotions long term. The Fountainhead method is presently being used by 400 practitioners including psychologists and doctors throughout Australia.

• 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. Perhaps emotional clearing would be a simple way to express the process in which you are guided through. Your Journey Therapist will equip you with the tools to understand and release limitations. Be it anger, grief, anxiety, fear, or it could be as simple as a sense that there is something more you could be achieving for yourself and your life. No matter how deep the issue or how much you have struggled with it, there is always the possibility you can become powerful, free and fully self expressed. The purpose of Journey therapy is to  get to the  true root or cause of the issue, finding resolve and allowing you to live your life fully-free and empowered to create new possibilities.Many people say this was one of  the best parts of their program.

• It is underpinned by Mindfulness training which has existed for millennia but has only been explained scientifically in the last twenty years.  “Mindfulness produces positive effects on psychological well-being that extend beyond the time the individual is practicing it. Over the last three decades mindfulness  practices have been increasingly incorporated into programs, to take advantage of these benefits. A large body of research has established the effectiveness of these mindfulness-based interventions in reducing symptoms of a number of disorders, including anxiety , depression , substance abuse , eating disorders , and chronic pain , as well as improving well-being and quality of life. Mindfulness  involves the development of awareness of present-moment experience with a compassionate, non- judgmental stance .It has been suggested that this process is associated with a perceptual shift, in which one’s thoughts and feelings are recognized as events occurring in the broader field of awareness”    Harvard Medical school Boston MA 2010

• 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 and resolve them. The Fountainhead Method™ shows you how to do this”.

Length of Stay-recommendation

Palladium Private Programs of 33 days are normally sufficient for the education of most addiction disorders. For Chronic addiction , we recommend the full program.