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December 2019 Newsletter.

05 Dec 2019

The risks of intimacy and sexual relationships in early recovery. The following is an attempt to explore the risks of intimacy and sexual relationships in early recovery. Admittedly, my focus is quite narrow, in that I’m exploring the role that new relationships play in contributing to relapse, and why addicts in early recovery should approach intimate relationships with caution. Relationships which may or may not include sexual intercourse, and could include such activities as heavy petting, very long dinners conversing about absolutely nothing, WhatsApp conversations until 4 a.m. and wistfully sighing at all hours of the day. In fact, any behaviour that you […]

Change Is OUR Responsibility!

17 Sep 2019

KIDS TRE ® project in local Cape Town township. Our country has been facing painful truths over the past few weeks about the extent of gender-based violence and ongoing xenophobic attacks. At Prospect Hill, we join with those who stand against this violence and its effects. We support working together to counter these and to create a safer more equitable world which celebrates life’s diversity. One of the effects of violence, is on our central nervous systems, which can get locked into a flight/ fight/ freeze response. According to Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, when we are in flight/fight/ shut down, we lose […]

Addiction is a Family Illness.

19 Mar 2019

“The family is often the weakest link and the strongest catalyst for recovery.”

Season’s Greetings from Prospect Hill!

12 Dec 2018

Dear Clients, Colleagues and Friends, As 2018 draws to a close, it brings with it a time to reflect on the year that has passed and look forward to the year that beckons. Having recently hosted two “Forgiveness Workshops” at Prospect Hill, the following comes to mind: Identifying and knowing what to leave behind in 2018 and what was valuable enough to take forward into the year ahead! Letting go of the anxieties, burdens, worries of the past and taking forwardcourage to change, inspiration for new methods of dealing with difficulties, and hope for a different day! Thank you for your support of our practice this year. […]

Prospect Hill Spring Newsletter.

19 Sep 2018

SPRING NEWSLETTER: OF NEW BEGINNINGS, HOPE AND HEALING. With Spring blossoming and the Recovery Walk on the horizon, comes a reminder that making a choice to stand for something and stand together can bring untold hope. Every day we are faced with a choice to do the ‘same old, same old’ or make a difference in our own or someone else’s life. The Recovery Walk gives us the opportunity to stand together for de-stigmatisation of addiction and against the practices of marginalisation and ‘othering’ of people. These practices are all around us and have disastrous effects. The more we can recognise them and take even the smallest […]

Season’s Greeting’s from Prospect Hill!

12 Dec 2017

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Although 2017 has been a year with many challenges, obstacles and personal adversities for us, the team at Prospect Hill are filled with gratitude and would like to take this opportunity to thank you – our friends, family, clients and colleagues – for helping us realise our bright and brilliant vision of ‘changing our story,’ one step at a time. As a group of individuals practitioners who merely shared a counselling space a few years ago, we set out to create a thriving company with a vision of providing affordable, accessible support in recovery from addiction, trauma and loss. We’ve only […]

The Recovery Quilt Comes Home.

29 Nov 2017

A year after its creation at the Recovery Film Festival, Prospect Hill’s beautiful patchwork masterpiece and labour of love, known as the “Recovery Quilt”, has found its way home and found a place to be proudly displayed at the practice in Wynberg. It is a collaborative work of art made up of squares depicting the stories of hope, courage and change of individuals in recovery and those affected by addiction. It is seen here with one of Prospect Hill’s counsellors, Tania De Maine-Oosthuizen (left) and two of the friends of the practice.

Season’s Greetings from Prospect Hill!

17 Dec 2016

THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF OUR STORY! Dear Friends and Colleagues, As this challenging year draws to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to share what 2016 has meant to us and the important part that you have played in creating our story this year. It is a story most vividly illustrated by the creation of a beautiful work of art we have called the Recovery Quilt. The quilt was born of PH’s vision to create a collaborative artwork weaving together the diverse stories of how our recovery community has found hope and change in […]

September 2016 Newsletter

13 Sep 2016

PROSPECT HILL COMES OF AGE: (Back row from left) Mark Emmerich, Katy Menell, Frances Ward, Penelope Garden, Bobby Jean-Jacques, (front from left) Jean Dixon, Romey Russell and Desiree-Anne Martin (insert). We’ve got some great news to tell you…. but first, we want to invite you to an excellently creative community art happening…. Now for the news… The Story of Prospect Hill Recovery Practice Some eight years ago, intrepid and seasoned counselor Jean Dixon shared a dream with colleague Katy Menell. She sketched out her vision of a place where a community of independent practitioners could come […]

December/ January Newsletter

26 Dec 2015

As the year draws to a close we want to express our Gratitude to all of you who have made our work at Prospect Hill possible this year. As we enjoyed the wonderful music and sharing from our community at our Year End Celebration, we thought again of the fellowship saying, “together we can”! Hearing of the vital and valuable work done by the Saartje Baartman Centre to counter gender-based violence,we were reminded of what a commitment to change can make possible. Together we experienced many creative communal spaces in 2015. We look forward to the opportunities that 2016 will […]