Red Door Recovery

09/11/2025

We don't just ask the person what addiction they have; we need to ask the addiction what person it has.

31/10/2025

Three years on. Never forgotten.

20/10/2025

Trapped in addiction is like being in a dark space, pitch black, and you cant find a way out. But when it is time, you will find a door.

19/10/2025

Red Door programmes come with a two year aftercare support plan. Along with the relevant qualifications, our team also brings lived experience into the mix, to help you turn the tide. For info: admin@reddoorrecovery.co.nz or 0800 RED DOOR (733 366).

17/10/2025

There is a lot more to a recovery hikoi than walking up a hill.

It’s about the push, doing som**hing we don’t want to, connection, fresh air and nature, and most importantly moving through a week’s worth of intensive work through our bodies.

Mauri ora.

24/09/2025

We say Good Bye to drugs and alcohol through a burning ceremony, the letter gets read out to their peers and then burnt. This is a Good Bye letter from one of our tangata whaiora.

Dear M**h,

Is it normal to choose you over my children?

Is it normal to walk the tight rope every day hoping that the next shot is going to be the one that kills me. And i get a sense of peace thinking this.

Is it normal to do things to other people that is so destructive and horrible and your able to justify it with complete and utter bu****it.

Is it normal to treat your loved ones like s**t through physical , verbal and emotion abuse and manipulation?

Is it normal to see prison as a way to get healthy and clean so you can get back out there and do it all again?

Is it normal to run on zero emotion and empathy , to discard your morals and values in order to feed your addiction?

Is it normal dishonesty becomes your first language?

Is it normal to isolate from all your loved ones and people that truly care?

It is normal to totally disregard all laws , rules , boundaries and consider this a normal way of life?

Is it normal to lay blame on everyone but yourself and take no ownership for any of your own actions?

F**k no , it’s not and f**k you m**h and my addiction.
I’ve wasted 10 years of my life supporting your hunger and all you have returned is misery , loss of self , attempted su***de , loneliness , incarceration , hate , pain , anger , emotional distress and loss of everything i believe in.
I chose to use you , and now i choose to free myself from the noose i have hung in for so long.
I have a solution to all the problems you have caused me . That solution comes down to putting my recovery first and reaching out when i am struggling , no matter what. Why? Because i dont want to die.
No doubt , you’ll try to climb the ladder , you’ll pop your head up through the good and the bad , but i will never let you reclaim the top spot ever again and sink me into that dark hole you create.
Our relationship wasn’t all bad , i can’t deny that , you made me feel none of those horrible feelings that once seemed unbearable to feel. But now upon completion of Red Door Recovery i have the tools , the support and the aftercare to know i am never alone. I can feel these feelings now , and sit with them. I can’t change whats happened but i can change tomorrow.
Whatever i had externally , i was internally broken from the first day we met.
This is farewell mother f**ker , i forgive you because i have to forgive myself but i will never ever forget the pain you caused and the internal misery.

Today i choose to be clean and to seperate from you for good.

Peace.

19/09/2025

Awhi - In Te Reo Māori, awhi means to hug, embrace, cherish, or nurture. It can refer to a physical embrace but also carries deeper meanings of support, interconnectedness, and the act of cherishing and caring for others.

Every Friday with our Tangata Whaiora we have a Awhi circle, where each client:
- Acknowledges themselves for som**hing they feel they have done well in the week.
- They set an intention for the upcoming week.
- Give an awhi, an acknowledgement to another one or all of their peers for som**hing they have noticed.

Sometimes its hard to acknowledge yourself, but the power in giving yourself and others love is mana enhancing.

Mauri ora.

14/09/2025

Red Door programmes come with a two year aftercare support plan. Along with the relevant qualifications, our team also brings lived experience into the mix. No masks. We see you. You see us. For info: admin@reddoorrecovery.co.nz or 0800 RED DOOR (733 366).

12/09/2025

10/09/2025

What better way to start a day. Messaged by a loving Mum about her son who came though Red Door about 2 years ago. He had a slip but used our aftercare to give things another shot. Today he is reconnected with his partner, off the benefit, working and studying to enable a significant career move. And, he just became a Dad! :-) He put in the hard yards and the rewards of that effort are life-changing. Getting these updates is what drives us and today's message put big smiles on faces. Well done lad; bloody well done. We are all proud of you and so happy for your Mum. You will be a great Dad. (And never forget Mother's Day :-)

18/08/2025

The come-down: You’re fighting the current with everything you’ve got, but the people on the shore, urging you on, they just get smaller and smaller. Then darkness falls; gravity is now intense. This is addiction. But when you are ready, truly ready, you will find your way back to the shore, where you find yourself again, where you find your potential.
Along with relevant degrees and qualifications our lived experience anchors Red Door addiction recovery programmes. We see you. And you see us.
All programmes come with a two year aftercare commitment.
Info: 0800 RED DOOR (733 366) or admin@reddoorrecovery.co.nz

15/08/2025

Appreciation post for this legend, Karl.

Karl is a graduate of our programme, and is now living in our transitional housing, working on himself and continuing to find a new way to live in recovery.

But more importantly Karl has employed 3 other Red Door Graduates in his tree servicing business allowing 3 others to gain skills, get employment references and to help them be pro-social members of our community.

So Thank You Karl, for giving back to our clients, all with criminal history and for allowing them a chance to be employed.

Supporting the Red Door Kaupapa means a lot to us, and if you do need any tree servicing done - please contact Karl.

Karl’s Tree Services Ltd.

Karlstreeservices.co.nz

Info@karlstreeservices.co.nz

021 162 6399