What is Intuitive Recovery?
Intuitive Recovery is SELF RECOVERY delivered within the UK drug and alcohol system. A truely unique course, specifically designed to teach the key skills of self-recovery - making the decision to stop and staying stopped. It is simply the skill of saying NO, wherever you are or whoever you are with. What comes after you have installed this plan is just life, with all its ups and downs.
The “One Trick Pony”
Intuitive Recovery separates addiction and its removal from all environmental and disease models of “treatment”. We are truly unique in that we recognise that all addictions are perpetuated because the person in question continues to decide to use, despite their better judgement.
Only when addiction is removed do we ever get a clear picture of a person's true mental and physical wellbeing, and one of the most beneficial effects of removing an addiction is that other, perhaps more ingrained problems can be properly identified and addressed.
Of course, very frequently other personal problems dissolve as the weight of a person's addiction lifts, leaving the individual empowered to a level they never thought possible.
Testimonials
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You can view many other video testimonials at http://www.inexcess.tv/?p=10508&v=1 or read the many written accounts below.
JL - Wirral
This course really opened my eyes and Tracy made everything easy to take in, She has been so helpful and informative. I have really enjoyed it and so glad I decided to do the course. I have now been off the alcohol for 2 months.
MJ - HMP Altcourse
It has given me one of the best tools I could of hoped for! It give me a boost made me stop feeling sorry for myself and made me take note of my responsibilities. I loved this course and I am now 4 month free from any substances.
JJ - HMP Altcourse
It made me look at life a lot better and feel better now I no what it has done to my life, I am so glad I did the course.
TH - Wirral
I thought the course was excellent. The original approach to "recovery" was really useful. Looking at addiction from this view has helped me to focus on my own personal responsibility. The course has encouraged me to maintain my sobriety.
PT - HMP Altcourse
First I was doubtful but 2-3 days in I was thinking totaly different and more confident in myself.
JK - HMP Altcourse
It has given me the information I require when released never to use again and return to a positive way of life with my family and to get back to full time employment.
JW - Liverpool
I found the course very productive and use the techniques on a daily basis. Using these techniques, give me extra strength to get through the day. I found the staff very easy going and helpful.
MS - HMP Altcourse
Brilliant course unlocking the science behind addiction and thought processing. Wish I'd have done it earlier so would have understood other courses earlier.
DF - HMP Altcourse
I Found the course very helpful and interesting, I learned several different techniques on how to help myselt to stay drug free.
CG - HMP Altcourse
Very good course. The best tool I have come across. I have already put this to the test and it works for me.
BG - Wirral
The course has been really useful to me I gained a lot of knowledge about addictions people with addictions to take the course.
DJ - HMP Altcourse
Course was brilliant gives me a way to tackle my demands mentally and feel good for doing so.
KW - Oldham
I have just finished my IR course at ADS Greaves Street in Oldham. I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it, I learnt alot and found it very helpful. My teacher was Iain Fairclough and he was very good at putting the lesson across, I found it very interesting. I will use everything I have been taught and I know that I can beat this, thanks to the help of your course. Once again Thanks.
RM - Tottenham
This course was and always will be my saving grace in life. I learnt so much and it all made perfect sence, my life was transformed. My friends and family had writtten me off, now I have my dignity and self-worth. Life gets better day by day, with realisitic and tangible achievements. Thank you, Intuitive Recovery.
SO - Tottenham
I found The Intuitive Recovery Course extremely informative. I have gained the best knowledge to conquer my addictive desires for things that are bad for me. Thank you.
SC - North London
The course was a postive induction in my life. It offered all that I had felt and enquired of for many years. It took all my fears, wants and needs within my addiction and eliminated them. Today I work with what I have, I know I am totally able to work with what I have been taught. From here on I can only grow.
KS - North London
Through doing the course I had revelation of eventually having to knock all that negative stuff on the head one thing at a time.
SH - Dagenham
Dear Mr. Bentley,
I would like to tell you how life saving your Intuitive Recovery Course is. My last Drink was on 1/12/2010. I was in Rehab and left not liking or feeling the structure. I was sure I would drink again, until I found your Course it was WOW, Hello, this makes sense it was like a light being switched on.I no longer Doubt myself I am alive again and enjoying my freedom. I recommend your Course to anybody who listens too me, it changed my thinking and gave me back my control, it was so enlightening.
SS - Walsall
I would like to thank everyone at I.R for helping me get my life back on track. It seems as though a bolt has hit me out of nowhere and given me my life back. I was a fool to myself for way to long and I now intend to use my experience to better my own life and others like me who are not aware of the fantastic help you provide. Thank you Jason and everyone else at I.R
JH - Ealing
I would just like to say a big thank you to Zach and Karen for all their help during the course. They made it alot easier to understand. I am proud to say since completing the course I have NOT had any codiene . Keep up the good work and once again thank you all.
JF - HMP Preston
When I first attended the course it was not easy to get myself out of all the thoughts and all the old excuses I learned from CARATS and CDT places, groups and stuff. It wasnt untill the end of the course almost that, I started to see the obvious points of Intuitive Recovery. Since then it has taken over a lot of my thinking and I have used it to not only to make me start coming of Methadone, which I had not intention of doing but helped me quit cigs, I read my book often and have even started teaching it my cell mate. I am really grateful that I was lucky enough to have the chance to do the course and it has definately changed my life.
Treatment in prison has come along way in the past 20 years and to be honest receiving methadone has helped me very much this time in prison. Prior to now I has never had Methdaone so I was really pleased that once I took it I had no feelings at all to chase drugs, as I have done in all the years before. I have spent around 20 years in prison and knew I had to sort it out this time, when out I didnt have the stones to fo cold turkey so a sentence was what I hoped for, It worked for me mainly beacuse I thinkI am at the point in my life where I have had enough and hated it. As for the services in and out of prison, outside they just seem happy to have everyone on meth and tell you its a great achievement but I have learned through your course that it isnt, all that has done is swapped drugs, as for in prison I find courses are mostly run to create jobs and not much in trying to get prisoners drug free. Out of say 5000 people who do any course is it possible to have 100% pass rate? As I sais its moved on in 20 years but then became stragnent, that is till Intuitive Recovery. Thank you Alex for giving us such a good lesson, even though at times you had a tougher time from institutionalised and ignorant officers than you did prisoners. I thank you for your patience, belief and commitment in trying to help others, its people like yourself Alex that make a difference.
JS - Wirral - Key Worker
I was impressed by the content of the Course and as a result have referred quite a few Patients/Clients to I.R since the course. It seemed simple language that an individual could relate to and it gave a diferent approach to tackling alcohol use than CWP Alcohol Service, which means more choice/support for the individual, which is great. I enjoyed Collen's delivery, informal, with anecdotes which provided a nice blend of theory and actual experience, which I would imagine would work well with alot of clients.
S.G - Barking
I felt I had to let you know how much the Intuitive Recovery course has helped me. I have been in numerous detox’s over the last 27 years, also a 6 week Rehab. I have also attended various groups and one-to-one counselling sessions and been to AA meetings nationwide. The penny never ever seemed to drop for me, I thought I was going insane with the constant arguments and battles with myself in my head. Then at last something actually made sense. Intuitive Recovery gave me the answers, it was so simple – Medical – Logical it all made sense to me from day one, because the course tutors have been there themselves they understood and were passionate about the Course .
MO - Cheshire
DJ - Wirral
I took the Intuitive Recovery course 2 and a half years ago now having had a serious problem controlling my use of cocaine. I can honestly say that within the first three hours of the course I had my problem sorted. I simply flipped to desire to use into the desire to not use and I have never looked back. Its great to be drug free - I can't thank Peter and his team enough.
NW - Chester
I found the information I gained/learned from attending the course gave me an insight into how the 'addiction' cycle actually worked and being aware of this information acted as an extra 'tool' in abstaining from my previous drug use.
DM - Manchester
Thought the course was excellent best ever. I am now off Alcohol and stopped smoking herion all thanks to the Intuitive Recovery course. I am now on 70ml of meth and are waiting to go into detox to be off that completely.
S Writer
I took the course quite a while ago and I am now into my 4th year free. Once you know the basics and iron out any initial arising 'animal' activity, it is a completely freeing and effective system to use. I am a very different person now to what and who I was when I first took the course. As years go by, you actually move on into living life, growing as a person and, although respecting the past and what I suffered and learned from it, for me now it all seems like a bad dream that happened to someone else. Quite uncanny really to even dwell on it, which I never do now. Its a boring story and only mattered to me at the time anyway. Having tried other methods over 20 years previous to taking this course, I struggled to ever make it 6 months. Even that was torture, swapping one self-imposed trap for another and complicating the simple. It does not, and did not, have to be that way. For me, this was the missing link. And, once learned, like any skill, if you use it and make it habitual and automatic, you just move on with life and achieve all you want to - drink/drug/behaviour-free, knowing the 'animal' is identified, caged, starved and completely insignificant the further away from the old life you get. Keep up the good work
CK - Manchester
Truly amazing course - I still can't believe just how easy it has turned out to be. 23 years using herion is now firmly laid to rest. And best of all I don't have to ever go back to a n NA meeting - I can't tell you what a relief that is. If you are in two minds about sitting this course don't be - you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
LG - Rochdale
I gave up drinking three years before sitting the Intuitive Recovery course so I was a little unsure of what I might gain. All such doubt has been totally removed. I now know that I WILL NEVER DRINK AGAIN - far from having to live in fear of relapse and feeling I have to avoid high risk situations I now feel as though I can take on the world. The fear of going back drinking has gone - thank you for my new-found happiness.
CP - Wirral
It was educational and a real eye opener and I really enjoyed it. It has helped me along and I havent used for 8 months now.
AS - Ealing(Keyworker)
The impact the course had on myself was great. It has helped me to understand that clients have a simple choice and can choose to silence the internal suggestion of using and has helped me to control my own consumption. I am very impressed.
DB - Wirral
I thought the course was excellent, I dont drink anymore since the course. I thought the neurological model used to explain it was brilliant, I am just getting on with my life now - I dont want look at that part. I used to attend AA classes but IR totally liberated from that insight. I only see councillor now but not for drink or drugs, just for gettin expects of my life back straight. I dont want my certificate because I dont want to look back at that part of my life, dont want to look at my self as being a drinker.
SS - Wigan
I found the course to be very inspiring and extremely well presented. The way it comes across is easily understood and can be related to many of lifes trails and challenges.
GB - Oldham
I was impressed with the course. It was so simple really, but if used as suggested, so powerful. I will carry on using IR in the future with confidence.
DJ - Wirral (Letter)
As you are aware, I attended the IR course in 2008 in order to beat my addiction to cocaine.
I would like to take this opportunity to thankyou and your team for all the support, guidance and education that was offered to me which enabled me to beat my addiction to cocaine which in turn allowed me to turn to living a normal life, not one clouded with the problems and pressures that arise from drug dependency.
Taking the Intuitive Recovery course provided me with the tools that are necessary to beat any addiction and meant that I took responsibility for my addiction rather than blaming others and seeing myself as a victim.
This approach appears to be different to other rehabilitation courses that I have researched and for obvious reasons, I am greatful to the Wirral Drug Service for reffering me to Intuitive Recovery. I would urge Wirral Drug Service to refer more drug and alcohol users to Intuitive Recovery as the objective of Intuitive Recovery and drug and alcohol usersis shared; life long abstinence.
Over the past two years, I have enjoyed what I consider to be a normal life with the usual ups and downs, but I am delighted to say that Intuitive Recovery course has allowed me to live my life without drug dependancy.
I am now looking to the future and I am hoping to become involved in drug rehabilitation and counselling in order to offer drug users the same support, guidance and education that intuitive recovery gave me andallow them to say, ' I will never use drugs again and i will never change my mind'
Once again, both my family and I offer whole hearted gratitude and appreciation and wish you well for the future.
