Minds Matter

12/11/2024

Lots of new followers, thank you for your support.
Keep on sharing my posts.
One of my posts may just help an addict or alcoholic know they aren't walking alone and recovery is possible x

03/10/2024

Your body is made up of 38 trillion cells, 82 minerals , 23 elements, and 8 gallons of water, distributed across 38 trillion cells ⚡️💡

You are composed of the recycled elements of butterflies, greenery, rocks, water, coal, animal fur, and shark bones, broken down and reassembled into the most complex living organism on this planet 🦋

You are not merely living on Earth - you are an integral part of the Earth itself 🌍

Think about just how important we all are to each other and the whole universe, remember you are individual, whole and meant to be.
Don't ever think you are not important 💚

21/09/2024

Do you know the feeling of procrastination ❓️
The sinking feeling you SHOULD be getting on ❓️
Who identifies as the mouldy veg that sits in a fridge draw, that you forgot was there 🫑
When ADHD sets in and new projects, fascinations & hobbies then as quickly as you found the thing that was going to absorb you for life. It's in the back of the filing cabinet with the rest of the projects 🗄

Procrastination that grows white shoots similar to the your old veg in the fridge draw 🥶
Sitting and wondering how you let it get that rotten and out of control. Procrastination setting in, many can find themselves looking at things and wondering how you didn't prioritise, priorities 🤔

Making amends to yourself that you'll curb your next fleeting thought of learning to mountain climb or become and an archaeologist 🏔
Before you know it, the thoughts come in and your doubting your every move - dopamine dropping from your procrastination, soon your over thinking your every move.
Little motivation to complete tasks or achieve goals. Not feeling pleasure in activities you once enjoyed. Little energy. Anxiety or sadness 😔

Managing your thoughts and expectations can be really helpful, taking time to think
'am I idealizing my outcome ??? '
'Is this really going to help me ??? '
'Will this just be another thing, I'll just cast aside ??? '
Getting really honest with yourself is the awnser, 9 times out of 10 your just dopamine hunting.
For help with ADHD and Addiction contact me
07530 00 28 35
www.mind-matter.co.uk
mindsmattertoo@yahoo.com

Embrace the Future with Minds Matter. Helping you put all the pieces back together.

11/09/2024

9/11

Are numbers that are etched in to peoples brains . . .

A truly awful day that no one of a certain age can forget.
We heard of the twin towers through media, radio, word of mouth and I'm certain the majority rushed to their nearest news point as soon as they could. I was working admin in garage and we all stopped, downed tools. Some of the people didn't collect their cars.
A day of darkness felt by the whole world 🗺 9.11.01 😔🙁
I was drinking heavily at this point, but this event stopped me in my tracks, the pure shock of who would do something so malevolent just stunned me. When I got home the news was straight on the TV.
And for someone who believes the news is full of 98% negatively and 2% of a cat was rescued from someone's tree, this was a very very rare thing 📰

Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
Despondency, Overwhelming Evil was felt around the globe. I can't even think of a word that does justice to those that were in those towers, the firefighters, the onlookers on the streets and their families.

A day that changed the world 🌎

03/09/2024

SoberCurious

Whenever I see these hashtags #️⃣ I think WTAF !!!!!!!!! Are the none addict minded actually ripping the s**t out of us !!!!!!!!!!!
It WIND ME UP !!!!!!!!!!!
Why on earth would a person want to play at being in our mindset, it's bad enough having to pretend that you are of a normal mindset. Let alone people trying to climb into our befuddled brains.
Then I climbed through into my thoughtful brain 🧠

Society has an expectation of when you hit 🔞 you celebrate with a drink and as we have found out alcohol is poison for the mind, body and soul.
It's used to celebrate, to mourn, when bored, when indifferent. We are not encouraged to feel our emotions we are encouraged to drown them.

Advertisements on the TV for alcohol, Radio, posters of such in our streets, reductions and offers on certain alcohol in the supermarkets, it's everywhere ⏏️. This poison is insipid, shallow.
Being sober-curious means being mindful of these habits and choosing when and if to drink – instead of doing so out of habit, or to meet social expectations. I choose not to drink on a daily basis and each day that dawns I make a pact with myself that today I will try to decline any thoughts of alcohol, and that after almost 22 years has become my next best thought every morning 🌄
A reframe of my thinking on this one was definitely needed, my stinking thinking can often take me down dark paths 🖼

So as people explore a sober landscape and a clearer veiw of what alcohol means in their life.
I encourage you to ask yourselves questions to what part alcohol plays in your life, what does alcohol do for you ???

03/09/2024

Whenever I see these hashtags #️⃣ I think WTAF !!!!!!!!! Are the none addict minded actually ripping the s**t out of us !!!!!!!!!!!
It WIND ME UP !!!!!!!!!!!
Why on earth would a person want to play at being in our mindset, it's bad enough having to pretend that you are of a normal mindset. Let alone people trying to climb into our befuddled brains.
Then I climbed through into my thoughtful brain 🧠

Society has an expectation of when you hit 🔞 you celebrate with a drink and as we have found out alcohol is poison for the mind, body and soul.
It's used to celebrate, to mourn, when bored, when indifferent. We are not encouraged to feel our emotions we are encouraged to drown them.

Advertisements on the TV for alcohol, Radio, posters of such in our streets, reductions and offers on certain alcohol in the supermarkets, it's everywhere ⏏️. This poison is insipid, shallow.
Being sober-curious means being mindful of these habits and choosing when and if to drink – instead of doing so out of habit, or to meet social expectations. I choose not to drink on a daily basis and each day that dawns I make a pact with myself that today I will try to decline any thoughts of alcohol, and that after almost 22 years has become my next best thought every morning 🌄
A reframe of my thinking on this one was definitely needed, my stinking thinking can often take me down dark paths 🖼

So as people explore a sober landscape and a clearer veiw of what alcohol means in their life.
I encourage you to ask yourselves questions to what part alcohol plays in your life, what does alcohol do for you ???

02/09/2024

The A team at the end of another two weeks counselling and detox job 🙌

We have helped to put back together another family and community in Devon.

Starting with an intense detox we have helped our client to safely reduce to zero alcohol.
Alcoholism/Addiction is a complex phenomenon characterised by a loss of control and compulsive, habitual behaviour. It can refer to physical dependence on substances, such as drugs or alcohol to repeated behaviours or activities that someone feels they have no control over.

Alcohol abuse can tear families apart and transform loving and successful individuals into desperate, lonely husks of their former selves.
Even though the impact is devastating, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Anyone can overcome alcohol and drug abuse with the help and guidance of the right treatment program.

With our collective skills we have holistically counselled, coached and transformed a household back to a place of harmony and love 🫶
Having counselled a whole family unit individually, they all understand themselves in regards to enabling and their disregard for their own feelings and connections.

Understanding the five stages of addiction recovery can be useful for addicted people and their family members.
Each stage clearly describes the process of recognizing and admitting the problem, preparing for addiction treatment, and dealing with life after treatment of alcohol and drug abuse.

1. Precontemplation Stage of Addiction Recovery 🤔

2. Observation Stage of Recovery 🔭

3. Preparation Stage of Addiction Recovery💭

4. Action Stage of Recovery🎬

5. Maintenance Stage of Addiction Recovery⌛️

All of us pictured do what we do with love care, attention, compassion and a 100% devotion 💯

www.mind-matter.co.uk
mindsmattertoo@yahoo.com

07530 00 28 35

Embrace the Future with Minds Matter. Helping you put all the pieces back together.

02/09/2024

WE DO RECOVER 🟣🟣

National Recovery Month (Recovery Month), which started in 1989, is a national observance held every September to promote and support new evidence-based treatment and recovery practices, the nation’s strong and proud recovery community, and the dedication of service providers and communities who make recovery in all its forms possible. 💪🏼💛

Recovery Month celebrates the gains made by those in recovery, just as we celebrate health improvements made by those who are managing other health conditions such as diabetes, asthma, or heart disease.
This observance reinforces the positive message that behavioral health is essential to overall health, prevention works, treatment is effective, and people can and do recover. 🙏🏻

There are millions of people whose lives have been transformed through recovery. Since these successes often go unnoticed by the wider population, Recovery Month provides a vehicle for everyone to celebrate these accomplishments. Each September, tens of thousands of prevention, treatment, and recovery programs and facilities around the country celebrate Recovery Month. They speak about strides made by those in recovery and share their success stories with their neighbors, friends, and colleagues. In doing so, everyone helps to increase awareness and foster a greater understanding about mental and substance use disorders 🟪💜

01/09/2024

Mindfulness encourages you to pay full attention to moment ⚠️ rather than becoming caught in worry 😟

Did you know people who find it most difficult to meditate are often the ones who need it the most ??? 🧘‍♀️
Did you know mindfulness through stressful periods 'reduces amygdala activation, thereby reducing overall levels of stress.🧠
Do you feel a shift in your thinking after a stressful period, a more conscious contact with yourself ???🙋‍♀️

Did you know stress rewires your brain to a stronger state ???💪🏼

Stress can strengthen neural pathways in the brain, especially those that are associated with stress responses. This can be because of frequent activation of these pathways, which can lead to enhanced wiring. 🛜

However, the brain can reorganize itself, a process known as neuroplasticity. This process can happen naturally in response to injury or disease, but it can also be encouraged through activities such as mindfulness.⚕️

Involves focusing attention deliberately, and looking at the present from a non-judgmental perspective. ⚠️

Redirecting thoughts and actions

Can help change neural pathways, replace habits, and use unknown parts of the brain. 🛣

Recent activities

Engaging yourself with extra activities and developing new behaviors can help create new neural pathways. 🤸‍♂️

Repetition

Repeating new activities can help strengthen the new pathway such as:-

Learning a new language 🇹🇰🇵🇼🇸🇷

Making art 🎨

Learning to play an instrument 🪕

Travel 🛫

It can take anywhere from three to nine months to create and integrate new neurons, and thus rewire the brain.

24/08/2024

The A team at the end of another two weeks counselling and detox job 🙌

We have helped to put back together another family and community in Devon.

Starting with an intense detox we have helped our client to safely reduce to zero alcohol.
Alcoholism/Addiction is a complex phenomenon characterised by a loss of control and compulsive, habitual behaviour. It can refer to physical dependence on substances, such as drugs or alcohol to repeated behaviours or activities that someone feels they have no control over.

Alcohol abuse can tear families apart and transform loving and successful individuals into desperate, lonely husks of their former selves.
Even though the impact is devastating, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Anyone can overcome alcohol and drug abuse with the help and guidance of the right treatment program.

With our collective skills we have holistically counselled, coached and transformed a household back to a place of harmony and love 🫶
Having counselled a whole family unit individually, they all understand themselves in regards to enabling and their disregard for their own feelings and connections.

Understanding the five stages of addiction recovery can be useful for addicted people and their family members.
Each stage clearly describes the process of recognizing and admitting the problem, preparing for addiction treatment, and dealing with life after treatment of alcohol and drug abuse.

1. Precontemplation Stage of Addiction Recovery 🤔

2. Observation Stage of Recovery 🔭

3. Preparation Stage of Addiction Recovery💭

4. Action Stage of Recovery🎬

5. Maintenance Stage of Addiction Recovery⌛️

All of us pictured do what we do with love care, attention, compassion and a 100% devotion 💯

www.mind-matter.co.uk
mindsmattertoo@yahoo.com

07530 00 28 35

06/08/2024

According to studies if a person regularly drinks too much alcohol or uses drugs regularly it can be toxic to their nerve cells.

Over time, drinking/drugging too much alcohol & substances can cause brain cells to die and a person's brain tissue to shrink
Alcohol-related brain damage (ARBD): what is it and who gets it . . .

Me, that's who and many people that have drank and used drugs !!!!
I was 25 when I found myself in hospital being told I'd dropped down dead and had to be revived on a hospital toilet floor.

Thankfully my body had done it in the right place in my local hospital, CPR had been performed and hospital staff had quickly performed defibrillation with a machine and I was back, but was I the same ???
Oxygen starvation to my brain had taken its toll.

My family had been called and were quickly on their way, to find me somewhat drowsy and surprisingly in good physical health considering the prior events, my body was responding well. However it became apparent to my family that my short term memory had been drastically reduced.
I'm told I would call my parents sometimes 30 times to a day to tell them to bring a change of clothes.
I soon realised what damage I had created so a note book and pen became my best friends, I would research the best ways to create new cells in the hippocampus, the best ways of quickly relearning.

Don't get me wrong, I remembered executive functions, my short term memory was shot though, times, dates, last minute arrangements, remembering things like journey's or names of people I'd just met I didn't have a hope of achieving.
Over time this got somewhat better, nonetheless not perfect.

How do I remedy this I thought to myself, through my years in sobriety things had improved while I wasn't putting the poison in my body and carried on to do so.

2013 I decided to start studying counselling and started a degree course at college, my Imposter syndrome hugely ticking away in the background, but much to my normal self, I bluffed it.
Pretending I remembered, all the while my pen and paper were ablaze with fire as I was writing 5 times quicker than everyone else. To my surprise I was passing learning review after learning review as I was writing about my active alcoholic life, I soon discovered the more I was using my brain the better it became.
New neural pathways were being formed and my new addiction began - LEARNING. Addiction Psychology Courses, Coaching Courses, Neurobiology Courses and the rest.
So you see in the face of adversity the acronym FEAR came into play
FACE EVERYTHING AND RECOVER.

FOR HELP WITH ALCOHOLISM, ADDICTION AND PTSD PLEASE CONTACT ME.
07530 00 28 35
www.mind-matter.co.uk
Email: mindsmattertoo@yahoo.com

Embrace the Future with Minds Matter. Helping you put all the pieces back together.

15/07/2024

20/06/2024

“If milk is wasted, it becomes yogurt.
Yogurt is more valuable than milk.

If it gets any worse, it becomes cheese.
Cheese is more valuable than yogurt and milk.

And if grape juice turns sour, it turns into wine, which is even more expensive than grape juice.

You're not bad because you made mistakes. Mistakes are experiences that make you more valuable as a person.

Christopher Columbus made a navigation error that led him to discover America.
Alexander Fleming's mistake led him to invent penicillin.

Don't let your mistakes depress you. It's not practice that makes perfect. It's the mistakes we learn from that make perfect!”

15/05/2024

Life has really side swiped me over the last few years, completely taken my legs away with . . .

- My sons Dad passing and handling his huge grief and my own.

- A horrific car accident that has left me with permanent pain and grieving my once very active life.

- Learning to walk again.

- A stoma reversal that went terribly wrong due to an auto immune condition, leaving me with more surgery scars. Grieving how I used to see myself.

- My own father and bestest friend suddenly passing, the one I told everything and never recieved any judgement.
Again grief !!!!
I have never had so many life huge events hit my all within quick succession.

And I've crumbled, sunk into my shell I've wallowed in it allowed myself to feel it. As my Dad used to say, allow yourself to feel it for a while but don't ever stay there.

And that's exactly what I've done, felt it.

THE IRONY IS THAT WE attempt to DISOWN our DIFFICULT STORIES to appear more whole or more ACCEPTABLE. BUT OUR WHOLENESS - even our wholeheartedness-
ACTUALLY DEPENDS ON THE ALL INTEGRATION OF OF OUR EXPERIENCES. including the falls.
I have felt every single inch of it. In not running away or hiding in a bottle from it !!!!
You have to feel the pain to feel the exact opposite and to come out the otherside.

There's not one without the other, no ying without yang.
I can feel my very heavy dark cloud lifting and more acceptance around all these massive, HUGE TRAUMA'S !!!!!!!!! I had the best teacher to learn this x
Of course things will come up and bite you, but once you get to grips with the highs and lows you'll accept them with more grace. It's not east but so worth it.

Life goes on, all the people that have departed the earth plane would not want me to be down, rather give grace for the positive affect they've had on my life.

It's been unnerving, disconcerting and I've white knuckled it, holding on to get through it. I'm not through it I don't think I ever will be, and that's fine life carries on.

I have life & happiness and so many would give me their last dollar for that, I can see the woods for the tree's. And it's a nice view x