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Recovery Maintenance Program

Our 28 Day Program lays a solid foundation for lasting recovery; however, we know that addiction isn’t something that simply disappears after 28 days. This is why relapse prevention is a crucial part of our program.

We ensure guests learn how to set themselves up with the tools, strategies and support to help prevent relapse. One of the most important aspects of Twelve Step Facilitation, and the reason why it is so successful in helping people achieve lasting sobriety, is connecting people with a recovery community and recovery meetings for a continuum of care.

We are here to help

If you want more information on our Recovery Programs, please complete the form to receive our brochure. One of our dedicated staff members will also contact you with more details and to answer any questions. You can also call on 02 9171 2920.

Relapse Program

What happens when I leave The Sydney Retreat?

While the emphasis of your stay at The Sydney Retreat will be your engagement with recovery members and your work on the 12 steps of recovery, we know that there are other challenges you will need to address when you leave.

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The most valuable resources for anybody commencing life in recovery are the 12 steps and the recovery community.

Most of us have had accommodation, financial, relationship and employment difficulties that we need to work through. The problems caused by our drinking and drug use don’t get resolved overnight – there is bound to be a reconstruction period ahead. But soon, you will come to realise that you’re not alone. Stay close to the recovery community by attending many meetings and talking to your mentor or sponsor. Utilise the wealth of experience that recovery community members have, and piece by piece, you will start to put your life back together.

Sober living and recovery will be a new experience for everybody in your life. Give it time.

Consistency works

Our experience shows that the desire to drink or use drugs again early in recovery can return with surprising force. For this reason, we teach that the key to successful, long-term recovery is ongoing engagement with the recovery community. In Sydney, there are 400 recovery meetings each week. There are morning, lunchtime, afternoon, and evening meetings every day of the week, and participation in these is vital to the recovery process.

During your stay, you will develop your detailed recovery plan to cover the period after you leave. Your recovery plan will guide you through every challenge that you face.

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Please stay connected with us after you have returned home

The Sydney Retreat welcomes and encourages past guests to return for weekly get-togethers and family BBQs. These get-togethers help will help you to maintain an ongoing connection to the principles and practices of recovery.

It will also allow you to meet with the friends you met while you were a guest at The Sydney Retreat and to support new members and guests who will be encouraged by your progress.

Guest Resources

Click for The Sydney Retreat Online Meditations.

Click for Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Recovery Meetings

Click for Narcotics Anonymous (NA) Recovery Meetings

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Real People. Real Stories

5.0 stars (based on 52 reviews)

5/5

A life-changing experience

Staying at The Sydney Retreat for the 28-day recovery program was truly a life-changing experience. Going into the retreat, I didn’t know what to expect. The facility itself is great and all the staff are extremely welcoming, compassionate and understanding. I’m grateful that The Sydney Retreat is focused heavily on 12-step recovery and isn’t just another detox. The retreat has provided me with a fresh outlook on life, knowledge of my illness, and above all, the tools to continue sobriety in my new-found life. Forever thankful.

5/5

Life Changing Centre

The Sydney Retreat is more than just a wonderful treatment centre, but a LIFE CHANGING centre. The 12 step program literally has saved my life when I had nothing left. All of the staff truly care about your sobriety and wellbeing. Not to mention the COOK “who will remain anonymous” dishes out the best home cooked meals I have had in a very long time. Accommodation is modern and well kept. They even have a pet possum that greets you every night to say goodnight. I am truly grateful to the Sydney Retreat and everyone there for showing me the way to sobriety.

5/5

Best thing I’ve ever done for myself

I was lucky enough to be a beneficiary of the scholarship program without which I would have been unable to attend. The program is really well structured and the routine set me up with a positive blueprint for success in the outside world. The staff and volunteers are compassionate and caring and a constant source of support and understanding. Coming here is the best thing I have done for myself in a very long time and I look forward to a long future not crippled by alcoholism. As my husband put it, “I finally have my wife back”.

5/5

The Sydney Retreat saved my life

I wanted to stop drinking alcohol though no matter how hard I try, I couldn’t. Year after year I was effectively drinking against my will. During my stay at the retreat, a miracle happened. The obsession to drink alcohol was removed and I was supported to begin working the AA 12 step program. I’m happily sober now and with the support of other sober Alcoholics in AA I need never drink again. If Alcohol is costing you more than money and you want to stop, I highly recommend The program and kind people at The Sydney Retreat can help.

5/5

A sober life is possible

The Sydney Retreat completely changed my recovery. For the first time I feel I really understand the disease of addiction and can see the path forward. The Retreat showed me that a sober life is possible and how to do it. It is a testament to the power of one alcoholic helping another. I have since recommended it to people struggling with their addiction as well to people living sober but seeking a deeper understanding of the AA program.