Maddy - Addiction recovery tutor - Thornbury

1^st lesson free

Maddy

Rate R1602
Response 1h

R1602/h

1^st lesson free

Addiction Recovery

Reflective recovery: Making sense of addiction, identity, and healing through deeper understanding

Name: Maddy
Address: Thornbury, ZA
Telephone: undefined
Price range: R1602

Addiction Recovery

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- online

About Maddy

I have spent the past eight years writing and teaching within a Master of Addictive Behaviours program, with a particular focus on sociocultural perspectives. Through family lived experience of disability, addiction, and mental illness, I learned early on that many of the assumptions we hold — even the most intuitive ones — can unintentionally deepen suffering rather than relieve it.

Life is full of paradoxes. The same patterns that protect us can also harm us; the things that isolate us can sometimes be attempts to belong. My process has never been about arriving at definitive answers, but about slowly learning how to sit with complexity, hold space for contradiction, and approach human nature with greater kindness, curiosity, and perspective.

At its core, my work is rooted in self-inquiry — an ongoing practice of reflection, unlearning, meaning-making, and reclaiming agency. In sharing it, my hope is not to instruct, but to connect with others who are also seeking deeper ways of understanding themselves, each other, and the worlds we move through.

About the lesson

What I offer
* Reflective psychoeducation and mentoring
* Specialist knowledge in addiction, mental health, and sociocultural wellbeing
* Nuanced, non-pathologising perspectives
* Recognition without needing to share

What this can look like
* Thoughtful one-on-one sessions
* Structured, personalised learning
* Space to be curious and expand insight

Psychoeducation can be a gentle and meaningful part of healing and recovery. When we have lived through periods of upheaval and emotional distress, it’s common for shame to take hold and start shaping how we see ourselves — as if the struggle is who we are. When we are able to see ourselves not as “broken”, but as someone who has adapted, survived, and is immensely capable, we open up the possibility of imagining different futures for ourselves.

In time, this kind of understanding can create space for us to reconnect with the parts of ourselves that have been overshadowed — our strengths, values, care for others, and hopes for something different.

At its heart, psychoeducation isn’t just about information. It’s about helping us feel more understood, less alone, and more able to hold our own story with kindness — sometimes for the first time in a long time.

My approach to this work is grounded in deep respect for the complexity of people’s lives. Rather than a process of “fixing”, it becomes a way of gently supporting insight and self-understanding, especially in relation to experiences that may have felt confusing, overwhelming, or shaped by shame.

I aim to create learning spaces that feel relatable and humanising — where we are not reduced to diagnoses or deficits, but are understood within the broader context of our histories, environments, relationships, identities, and protective patterns. In this way, learning is not separate from lived experience, but connected to it.

I recognise the profound impact that family hardship, gaps in systems of care, and pressures around productivity and socially defined success can have on wellbeing. I value language that is attuned to this complexity, and I intentionally balance frameworks with reflection so that learning feels emotionally resonant.

I also hold in mind that recovery is deeply personal, often non-linear, and shaped by context and circumstance. There is rarely one “right” path forward. Instead, psychoeducation can offer space to make sense of our experiences, consider new possibilities, and move towards a sense of self that feels more integrated and whole.

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10h: R13734

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The free first lesson with Maddy allows you to get to know the tutor and discuss your needs and expectations.

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