Blossome
Blossome is a welcoming community for adults affected by someone else’s drinking, drug use, gambling or other addiction. We offer group support, drop-in self-care activities and structured self-care and self-compassion programmes. It’s a place to meet others who understand, build supportive friendships and learn practical ways to care for yourself, regulate difficult emotions and calm your nervous system. Through creativity, connection and compassionate support, we help people remember their own wellbeing, feel less alone, become more resourced and better able to find steadiness, even when life around them feels uncertain.
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Resourcing Me
A weekly self-compassion and emotional wellbeing group offering practical ways to steady yourself when life feels difficult or unpredictable. Participants learn practices to regulate emotions and the nervous system, reduce overwhelm and develop a kinder, more supportive relationship with themselves.
Decades Club
A supportive group specifically for parents affected by an adult son or daughter’s addiction. It offers a place to talk with others who truly understand, reduce isolation, explore the emotional impact of caring and worrying, and learn ways to care for yourself without stopping caring about the person you love. Learn healthy love that supports the whole family. Liz who attends regularly calls Decades Club " An oasis in a desert of pain."
Sunrise Dips
Gentle community sea dips followed by breakfast and time together, with no pressure to swim or stay in the water for any particular length of time. Experience the benefots of cold-water and blue therapy. Being in nature, sharing the experience and connecting afterwards can help people feel grounded, energised and part of a supportive community.
Slow Stitching
A monthly gentle creative session where each person stitches a word or message of their choosing onto their own square. Experience the calming effects of slow stitching as you embroider your own message of hope, resilience, or personal significance. Overtime, all the individual squares are stitched together, each voice still its own, but part of something shared. A beautiful reminder that we can belong without losing ourselves.
Cultivating Self-Compassion
A nine-week Mindful Self-Compassion programme helping participants learn how to respond to themselves with greater kindness, understanding and strength during difficult moments. The course develops practical skills for managing difficult emotions, challenging relationships, reducing self-criticism and shame, and becoming a more reliable source of support for yourself.
Self-Care for Grieving Hearts
An immersive twelve week self-care journey to help you practice prioritising your own self-care with self-compassion. Explore twelve different ways to care for your body, mind and heart and dscover what works for you. Designed for anyone affected by someone else’s drinking, drug use, gambling, or other addiction, the programme offers a blend of physical, social, emotional, and personal self-care, to help you learn to regulate your emotions and nervous system. Held in a small group, this is an opportunity to form new friendships, share stories, and find calm, understanding, and connection with people who understand. Add yourself to the waitlist for the next available programme.
Bloom Self-Care Community
Bloom is Blossome’s ongoing self-care community for people affected by someone else’s addiction. Members can stay connected between activities, access self-compassion and wellbeing resources, follow our monthly self-care journeys and build relationships with others who understand creating a continuing source of support rather than having to cope alone.
Who can use this service?
Anyone affected by someone else's substance misuse.
Anyone bereaved by alcoholism or addiction.
How are services delivered?
Online /Face to Face
Small Group Setting
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