Testimonials
Goldbridge has built a reputation amongst past and current clients as the key program on the Gold Coast that achieves real and sustainable recovery outcomes. Here’s what some of them have to say:
A longer testimonial:
My name is Grant & I’m a recovering drug addict, alcoholic, compulsive gambler. Just for the record I was none of these things before coming to Goldbridge, I was a special case that no prescription drug was able to treat. After processing my past I have come to understand I was born a raw nerve in blue booties!! Drugs were not the problem but a solution that stopped working. This ended as promised – jails, institutions and if not for good paramedics and the like’s death.
After being released from yet another prison sentence in 2001 and a long parole hanging over my head, I knew something had to change. Not knowing I had this disease that wanted me dead, or that alcohol was a drug. I successfully drank myself out of a heroin habit. That brought me to my knees in 2010.
Over that 9 year period, I managed to get into a relationship, have 2 children, a fantastic job which taught me a trade. On one of the better attempts at getting sober we bought a house. I don’t know exactly when I lost all that, why I could never get home or how I would wake up a long way away from where I started to drink.
Drugs / alcohol have managed & dictated my life since my first drink at 11yrs old, so it was pretty much a rock bottom existence. I have lost partners & kids, jobs and homes before but this time was different, I had totally lost myself.
I put myself into a detox for booze and benzos and knew I would have to go to a rehab at least until I could get my family back. Goldbridge appealed to me because it was not God based or 12 Steps, I didn’t need all that, I just needed time. That great illusive higher power was obviously at work for me to walk through the door, especially when the first 2 people I encountered were caring teddy bears. (Nut house)
Through hope, good case workers, the 8 habits and a supportive network, I managed to spend 8 months under the care of Goldbridge. I identified and admitted I had this disease of addiction and was equipped with the tools to arrest it 1 day at a time. Not that you could have told me at the time, Goldbridge’s structure & program fitted me like a glove. The family support, the self ownership of cleaning up the wreckage of the past and the list goes on.
Since leaving the programme, I have reconciled with the family (which has rocketed in to a new dimension). Started a small business in the trade learned prior to treatment. I utilize the Goldbridge structure in my life today, try for a healthy balance of work, rest, play & family. As well as the 8 habits I have the 12 steps, I continue to work with addict supporting addict, I’ve opened up a meeting in our small town which has 12 stepped a few people now and also recommends Goldbridge as a great place for treatment.
~~ Goldbridge you’re on my gratitude list thanks Grant ~~