Every week, our Ocean Hills community of guests who have completed the live-in programme meet online to support each other.

Sobriety milestones help keep you on track with your sobriety and provide accountability. Get support to honour them.

The trick with sobriety is to get through the boring patches, stay on track and not sabotage your success.

You can be strong, be kind and offer to organise them the treatment in rehab they need, when they're ready.

Just being free from alcohol is only one part of being sober. Another crucial element of sustainable sobriety is what is known as emotional

Most privately-run rehabs – like Ocean Hills Detox and Rehabilitation – are run ‘inhouse’, which means you live at the facility for a while.

Alcohol dealt with everything sad, bad, mad and glad in my life. It was my lover and best friend but it was an abusive relationship.

Why don't I feel better now I'm sober? PAWS and taking it easy after stopping drinking alcohol.

How to stay sober with self-care.

What happens when you detox from alcohol

As each holiday rolls around, people are in a mood to celebrate. But could it be possible we are staring down the barrel of substance abuse

It might take a nasty drama - which can often come to a head at Christmas - to bring attention to a family member's drinking problem.

Getting sober doesn't have to be a New Year's resolution - you can start the process at any time.

Sober Coaching is a new service at Ocean Hills which complements our residential treatment programme.

The most important decision you’ll make each day is to put your sobriety first. Then you can enjoy a rich, healthy and sustainable sobriety.

Drinking dreams be scary but can be can serve as an important reminder to double down on self-care in sobriety.

We are not peer-support or volunteer-led, like some other 12-step alcohol and drug rehabs. Our staff are specialist clinicians.

After stopping drinking, life becomes full of possibilities you could never have imagined.

I admitted that my facade was starting to slip. But rather than stop drinking, I started having a drink in the mornings.

From chronic relapsing to lasting sobriety: Paulette shares her journey from addiction to alcohol to lasting sobriety.