Simcha Recovery

Simcha Recovery Simcha Recovery is a community based program based on narrative practices, aimed at people struggling to break free from the problem of addiction.

Our therapist-led group meets three times a week and individual therapy is also available. Contact Dr Jo on [email protected] or Nonka on [email protected]

Every step of recovery asks something of you that’s harder than it looks.Honesty takes courage. Asking for help takes co...
17/06/2026

Every step of recovery asks something of you that’s harder than it looks.

Honesty takes courage. Asking for help takes courage. Sitting with discomfort instead of running from it takes courage. Even hope - daring to believe things can be different - takes a quiet, stubborn bravery.

This is why courage comes first.

Not because the other things don’t matter, but because none of them are possible without it. Compassion, patience, honesty, perseverance - every value you want to live by requires the nerve to choose it, again and again, especially when it’s hard, even while the fear is present. To take one brave step toward your preferred story, then another. 🌻

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On this Youth Day, we remember a generation who refused to let their minds be colonised by fear.There is a quiet kind of...
16/06/2026

On this Youth Day, we remember a generation who refused to let their minds be colonised by fear.

There is a quiet kind of oppression that lives inside us - the voice that says this is just who you are now. Addiction works the same way. It doesn’t only take hold of the body; it occupies the mind, whispering that the struggle is your identity, that the story is already written.

But recovery is an act of resistance. It is the moment you realise the problem is not you - it is something separate, something you can name, face, and stand against. When you begin to see addiction as the oppressor rather than the truth of who you are, you reclaim the pen. You become the author again.

The young people of 1976 understood that freedom begins in the mind. So does recovery. 🌻

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We tend to think letting go means losing something.The story. The identity. The coping mechanism that, however harmful, ...
15/06/2026

We tend to think letting go means losing something.

The story. The identity. The coping mechanism that, however harmful, became familiar. Even the version of ourselves that was shaped by the struggle. Releasing it can feel like grief - like giving up a part of who we are.

But letting go isn’t subtraction.

It’s clearing room.

In narrative practice, when you loosen your grip on the story the problem wrote for you, you’re not left with emptiness. You’re left with space - space for the values that got buried, the voice that got quiet, the preferred story that’s been waiting for room to breathe.

You’re not losing yourself.
You’re making space for the truest version of you to finally show up. 🌻

What would change if you decided - just for today - to be a little kinder to yourself?Because here’s what we notice in r...
14/06/2026

What would change if you decided - just for today - to be a little kinder to yourself?

Because here’s what we notice in recovery: the same people who show up with enormous compassion for others will slam the door in its face the moment it turns toward them. A compliment arrives and gets deflected. A kind word lands and gets dismissed. Someone sees your strength and you immediately explain it away.

That’s not humility.
That’s an old story talking.

Loving yourself more doesn’t mean arrogance. It doesn’t mean pretending everything is fine. It means letting the good things in. Receiving care without shrinking from it. Holding yourself with the same tenderness you would offer someone you love.

You are allowed to be seen.
You are allowed to be appreciated.
You are allowed to agree.
Let the kindness land. 🌻

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There’s a quiet kind of strength that doesn’t shout. It’s the strength of standing up when the easier thing would be to ...
13/06/2026

There’s a quiet kind of strength that doesn’t shout. It’s the strength of standing up when the easier thing would be to stay down.

Mary Holloway reminds us that resilience isn’t about waiting to be rescued. It’s about recognising that you hold the pen. The story of falling doesn’t have to be the story you live in. You get to author what comes next.

At Simcha Recovery, we walk with people as they discover this for themselves: that the problem is not who you are, and that your preferred story - the one where you rise - is always within reach. 🌻

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We spend so much time living anywhere but here.Replaying the past. Rehearsing the future. Dragging yesterday’s story int...
12/06/2026

We spend so much time living anywhere but here.

Replaying the past. Rehearsing the future. Dragging yesterday’s story into today. Borrowing tomorrow’s anxiety before it’s even arrived.

And in doing so, we miss the only place where change is actually possible.

Not in the regret behind you.
Not in the uncertainty ahead.

Right here. This breath. This moment. This page of the story that is still being written. 🌻

There is a quiet pressure to keep certain chapters closed.We learn to tell the tidy version - the one without the cracks...
11/06/2026

There is a quiet pressure to keep certain chapters closed.

We learn to tell the tidy version - the one without the cracks, the falls, the seasons we barely made it through. We mistake the smoothing-over for healing.

But shame is not the truth of your story. It’s a voice that crept in and convinced you the hardest pages were something to be hidden rather than honoured. In narrative practice, we gently set that voice apart from who you really are - and we begin to read and tell your story differently. 🌻

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Some days, hope feels gone.It isn’t.It doesn’t leave when the storm rolls in. It tucks itself somewhere deep and quiet -...
10/06/2026

Some days, hope feels gone.

It isn’t.

It doesn’t leave when the storm rolls in. It tucks itself somewhere deep and quiet - and keeps singing even when you can’t hear it.

Despair will tell you this is who you are now. But that’s not the truth of you. It’s just a story that moved in and started speaking on your behalf.

You get to answer back.

Notice that one stubborn note today. It’s yours - and it has carried more people home than despair ever counted on. 🌻

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So many of us are waiting.Waiting to feel ready. Waiting for the right moment. Waiting until things are more stable, mor...
09/06/2026

So many of us are waiting.

Waiting to feel ready. Waiting for the right moment. Waiting until things are more stable, more certain, more controlled. Waiting for the version of ourselves that has it all together before we dare to begin.

But that version never arrives. And the waiting becomes its own kind of stuck.

Narrative practice doesn’t ask you to have it all figured out. It doesn’t require a perfect starting point or a clean slate. It just asks one question:

What is one small thing - right now, today - that reflects who you want to be?

Start there. 🌻

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Recovery is rarely a solo story.When you do the hard work of examining your narrative - separating yourself from the pro...
08/06/2026

Recovery is rarely a solo story.

When you do the hard work of examining your narrative - separating yourself from the problem, reconnecting with your values, reclaiming your identity - something unexpected happens.

The people around you feel it too.

Your healing gives others permission to begin theirs. Your courage becomes a mirror. Your story, honestly told, breaks the silence that kept everyone stuck.

This is why community matters in recovery. Not just for the support it gives you - but for the ripple you become. 🌻

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Wednesday 10:00 - 12:00
Thursday 17:30 - 19:30

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