New west home to assist with substance abuse
The Centre in Mountain View is for secondary treatment to substance abusers who have already been to rehab.
A non-profitable substance abuse recovery centre recently opened in Pretoria West.
Alice Lubbe of A Touch From Heaven Ministries said the programme officially kicked off on Thursday, through which the drug addiction recovery and training centre was born.
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She said the centre, located in Mountain View, was a secondary treatment centre that helped substance abusers who have already received primary treatment from rehab.
“The centre aims to help them understand and identify their behaviour and assist them with reintegration into society in order to prevent them from falling back into their old habits,” she said.
She said this was achieved through several methods.
This included the implementation of pastoral psychological counselling, individual and group sessions, lectures, team building, spiritual gatherings, motivational speakers and 12-step recovery programme.
“We also encourage students to participate in normal activities and engagement in the community,” she said.
“All this training is based on Christian values and principles.”
Lubbe said the courses and lectures were divided into three categories.
“First, there is emotional recovery, followed by becoming competent and discovering your creative purpose,” she said.
“Lastly, there is a 12-step recovery programme.”
Under emotional recovery, topics such as covenant, forgiveness, pride and emotional scars, rejection and guilt were discussed.
During the becoming competent and discovering your creative purpose lecture, topics included: what is my purpose, brain capabilities, renewal of the mind (toxic thinking), stress management and trauma control, finance and business management and relationship and marriage recovery.
She said the 12-step recovery programme included several steps:
– Acceptance – admitting we were powerless over our addiction – that our lives had become unmanageable.
– Hope – come to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
– Willingness – a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God.
– Personal inventory – searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
– Self-disclosure – admitting to God, to ourselves, and others the exact nature of our wrongs.
– Reflection – ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
– Humility – humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings.
– Amends list – make a list of all persons we have harmed and be willing to make amends to them all.
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– Make amends – make direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
– Continued inventory – continue to take personal inventory and admit it when wrong.
– Spiritual growth – seeking through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God’s will for us and the power to carry that out.
– Giving Back – having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, trying to carry this message to other addicts and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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For more information about the programme, Lubbe can be contacted on alicelubbe@telkomsa.net.
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