Inner Confidence

Inner Confidence

Here are five tips as a starter-guide to building your inner-confidence. We recommend that you have a read, and then chat through with a Support Person. 1. Accepting feelings as feelings. At the Retreat, we think about the person holistically; and understand how the...
Grounding Techniques

Grounding Techniques

Using the 5-4-3-2-1 technique, you will purposefully take in the details of your surroundings using each of your senses. Strive to notice small details that your mind would usually tune out, such as distant sounds, or the texture of an ordinary object. What are 5...
Coaching Intro

Coaching Intro

One of the opportunities available to people accessing Taranaki Retreat’s Outreach Programme is to have some coaching with our Life Coach Liz.  Sometimes we feel stuck, or we may be up for making some changes/moving forward, tired of talking about the past...
Drug/Alcohol Support

Drug/Alcohol Support

 In this article, we’ve used D&A as short-hand to refer to drug & alcohol / substance use/abuse – knowing that not all of this will apply, but just to give as broad a picture as possible : Q. I am determined / my loved-one is determined to...
Relationship Support

Relationship Support

Prepare-Enrich is the relationship support tool we use at Taranaki Retreat. It is an international brilliant scheme which has been used by literally millions. Here’s how it works : Both parties in the relationship complete an online survey about their...