Group Recovery Sessions

Your residential rehab program includes group recovery sessions that are designed to provide the framework and pathway towards your long-term recovery. These sessions and are held every day of your stay with Miracles for one hour in the morning and evening.

Different to the psychoeducation, it is in these sessions that you get to speak your own truth while your group listens to you in confidentiality, without comment or judgement, and you don’t need to speak if you don’t want to. These sessions are about addiction and the thought patterns, beliefs and behaviors associated with it, including the recovery insights that come from considering the subject matter of the session.

The group is guided by an addiction recovery specialist who will introduce a topic, reading or video. Then each person will have a few minutes to voice their feelings or experiences without being interrupted or judged, and if time allows then group discussion may take place also.

Here, tragic instances in people’s lives are often shared, the hard realities of life as an addict as well as the strengths and hopes and indeed often comedic irony. These are not therapy sessions as such because attempts to help frame or resolve your insights are not made. Through this honest process of you and others sharing your reality, realizations and experiences, a deep sense of mutual understanding is harnessed, and a group connection created.

It is via the sharing of the common thread of past addiction, of where you have been and where you are going, that long term and often lifelong friendships are formed. For many people this is perhaps their first experience in their lives of belonging to something genuine, meaningful, and mutually supportive. Either way the effects of these group sessions are profound.

The validation of being accepted, understood, and supported by the group in these guided addiction recovery sessions has proven to be ‘the’ most effective approach to relapse prevention and long-term sustainable recovery.

Everyone is working together for the common good and the group’s energy in this direction supports and embraces everyone involved. Previous clients are welcome to join by Zoom as indeed you will be for as long as you wish to into the future after you leave Miracles.

The sessions are completely confidential and are often full of great humor and laughter as people identify with each other’s stories and express their relief at being free of the blight of addiction. Again, these sessions include an element of mindfulness and meditation practice, deepening your ability to recognize and naturally master your thoughts and emotions. These sessions are held in comfortable armchairs at our serene and luxurious outdoor meeting space.

On Wednesdays and Saturdays we hold the morning session at a stunning location overlooking the sea and sand of beautiful Bang Tao beach where afterwards you can walk along the beach, paddle or swim.