Suzanne

This article is one in a series about recovery from tik addiction, written with gratitude to Yasmin, who agreed to let me tell her story to inspire others. Tik is the term used in Cape Town for crystal meth. Yasmin’s tenth session started with a confession. She had shared a friend’s pipe two days previously, as such she had 11-12 days of being totally clean, one mishap, and then two days clean afterwards. Looking at her, I could see that it was not one or two tokes only. So we set to work on this to start with. The aspects we dealt with this time were peer pressure. Yasmin said that her craving would be a 3 out of 10 if a friend was smoking in front of her then. We tapped on three statements he friends would say after she would have told them that she was not smoking (tik) any more. They went something like this. “Come on, who do you think you are, all pure now?” “What, you’re becoming a nun now?” “Come on, Yasmin, I know…

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About Suzanne

Suzanne is a master trainer and one of the founders of the Energy Healers Association. She specialises in Reiki, EFT tapping which she has been doing along with other modalities since early 1999 Her ares of experience and expertise are addiction, pain management, family confidential and conflict to name a few she also helps with performance anxiety and improved performance for jobs and even exams.