"Lifelong skills"

I engaged in a 3 week course with Lives Lived Well focusing on my struggles with substance abuse spanning over the past 10 years. I had already engaged with the Woolloongabba team hoping to complete the program 6 months before I started this round. Unfortunately due to my circumstances at the time, having just gotten out of jail and being a full time single parent, I didn’t meet attendance requirements and was unable to complete it.

I found that this time around going into the course with LLW and having more clean time under my belt meant that I was ready and eager to start. I managed to finish with great attendance, meeting the requirements and completing all the workshops. The course gave me the ability to develop great insight into my psyche, in and around my substance abuse. It helped me learn techniques and strategies to direct my emotions and thoughts so they don’t become problematic and mis direct me while on my journey of sobriety.

The teachers are an essential part of the course, you can tell they are passionate and well educated around the topics and discussions they put forward to the group. This creates a thriving  environment for people completing the course to remain comfortable and openly communicative about topics that are sensitive to them and to their recovery journey. I thoroughly enjoyed the content shared over the duration of the course and feel as though I will further be able to integrate those techniques and skills into my life while striving to maintain abstinence from drugs and alcohol.