Carey: Do you know what, for once in my life I actually feel proud of me.
I actually feel that I am actually worth something and deserve to live a life that's full.
You know?
And be happy.
I'm nearly eighteen months clean.
I'm eighteen months clean next week.
Paul: I'm going to be a year clean and sober in about three weeks’ time it is and every
day get's better for me.
Matt: So I've just celebrated my nine year birthday about two weeks ago.
So that's like a big achievement for me because I like couldn’t get more than like a couple
of months or a month clean and I'd be using again.
So to find out that I'm young and that I can do it.
If I could do it, then anyone can really stay clean.
Zak: Looking at my life, I would probably be dead, under the ground.
Given me a life back that I didn’t know I would had that life without Provy
Jon: Well that was the worst of it.
I was getting up and drinking just to make myself feel better, to try and run away from
what had just happened.
Sheila: Its awful because there wasn’t anything I could do about it and it had got to the
point when Jon was drinking all times of the day.
And in the morning he would reach for a bottle of wine from the fridge.
Paul: I've been doing this for nearly fifteen years and I'm still astounded at the changes
that people are able to make, when they are given the right treatment.
Most client who come to us in their feedback and their evaluations, often say that for
the first time in their lives they felt understood.
Stephen: I have worked with a lot of addicts.
I have been through treatment myself.
I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic and my experience of treatment of various
treatment facilities, I felt they left a bit to be desired, really.
And I wanted to do something where clients felt cared for, where we were kind to them
and took them seriously.
Carey: It didn’t matter what I did, you know, they were always there for me.
And that, as an addict, is priceless because you don’t get that on the outside.
I came from the darkest ever place, to be honest.
It was absolutely no hope whatsoever.
Zak: I tried detox, tried a private detox.
I spent a lot of money.
Carey: What I do remember is as soon as I walked in that door the unconditional love
that was shown by every single member of the staff in that building.
Paul: The admission process, the referral process at Providence is really, really simple.
You have from that first call, people are often in rehab within 48 hours.
At the Providence Project we have a really intensive, structured timetable, consisting
of a variety of one to one counselling sessions, group therapy sessions, workshops and groups
not just on addiction but we are looking at relationships, we are looking at stress
management, family therapy.
Stephen: We also do a lot of work on low self-esteem, low confidence.
Many of the clients that come to us have got huge egos but no self-esteem whatsoever.
And it’s very important that they realise that they are good people.
Carey: I just didn’t know how to live without using drugs or alcohol.
So I needed, I needed them guidelines and I need the boundaries that were put down her
for me.
Paul: A massive, massive change.
To put down, you know, the drink and drugs is one thing but to learn and learn so much
about yourself and the and do so much work on yourself, was massive for me.
Because I didn’t really know who I was when I walked into the Providence and as time went
on, I realised I was achieving something and moving forward and there was going to be a
life for me ahead, you know after three months was massive.
Sheila: It was as if I'd got a partner back.
You know, somebody who was willing to be a partner in our lives.
Rather than somebody that was just blocking everything out all the time.
Carey: What the Providence Project is, is a life-saving machine.
A very well-oiled machine that if you walk through them doors and give yourself a chance,
I guarantee to you that you can stay clean and anything is possible with them.
You know, trust them because I see many people and if you want recovery, you get recovery
there.
I’ve seen many people going through them doors and being really successful in their
lives.
Nobody that goes in there has to use ever again.
Paul: They changed my life, you know.
It was down to the Providence Project that gave me my life back.
You know?
And not only me, my partner, my mum, my grandparents.
All the people, my children, they had their dad back.
My children had their dad back.
My family had their son back, you know.
And every day gets better for me.
It’s not easy, it’s far from easy, but its one hundred percent better than what it was. And that's...
If there is people out there that are struggling, you know, I never thought that there was a
way out of the mess that I was in, continuingly doing the same thing, day in, day out, day
in, day out and the feeling from inside when you are, you know, you are doing the wrong
thing.
Paul: So many people say, when they think about their time back at Providence Projects,
their memory is of the first time in years having that real belly-laugh that they had
lost through the grips of addiction.
Jon: The people that I met, workers, counsellors at Provy are the best people I have ever met.
You know, they saved my life and our marriage but save hundreds and hundreds of, well countless
amount of other people's lives.
Sheila: Yes, we are always saying it, aren’t we?
Thank you.
Jon: Thank you so much guys.
Words don’t say it but you know that.
Thanks.
Sheila: Yes.
Our thanks.
Zak: Over here, its like a family.
I got the goosebumps now.
Its like a family down here.
They don’t care what sort of race you are.
I'm getting emotional now as well.
They have given me a life back.
I didn’t know I would have that life without Provy.
Like I said, I can’t thank them enough.
Stephen: As an addict, I never thought it was possible.
I never thought it was possible to stop.
I just didn’t think it was in the slightest.
But to see people actually break the cycle of their addiction and have a life.
It's just miraculous.
Absolutely miraculous and anyone can do it.
With the right help, anybody can do it.
Anyone can beat their addiction.
They can beat alcoholism.
When I say 'beat it', I mean come to terms with it, break the cycle of it and live a
life full of quality.