Recognise patterns
Develop awareness of personal triggers and habitual reactions.
Wellness Within UK · Recovery programme
Mindfulness-Based
Relapse Prevention
Supporting the recovery you have already begun.
An eight-session aftercare programme for people who have begun changing their relationship with alcohol, substances, gambling or another addictive behaviour. MBRP supports continuing recovery, wellbeing and a more sustainable way forward.
Building on change
Change is the beginning. Recovery develops over time.
The first steps matter, but recovery also has to live alongside relationships, work, responsibilities, health and ordinary everyday pressures.
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention brings mindfulness together with established relapse-prevention skills. It helps you notice patterns more clearly, respond to difficulty with greater awareness and understand what supports the recovery you are building.
Meet discomfort
Relate differently to challenging thoughts, feelings and sensations.
Respond with choice
Create a pause between what happens and what you do next.
Support recovery
Build a lifestyle that sustains wellbeing, connection and change.
A practical example
A brief recovery check-in
This is one example of how mindful awareness can be brought into an ordinary difficult moment. It is not about forcing calm or getting the answer right.
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Pause
Give yourself a moment before moving straight into the next response.
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Notice
What is happening around you? What thoughts, feelings or body sensations are present?
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Consider
What may be placing recovery under strain, and what support is available?
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Choose
What is one next step that would support your recovery and wider wellbeing?
The purpose is not to control the moment. It is to notice more clearly, so that choice becomes possible.
The programme
Eight connected areas of practice
Each theme builds awareness, practical skills and a more considered response to the situations that can place recovery under strain.
Moving out of automatic pilot
Notice familiar reactions before they carry you forward automatically.
Recognising triggers and patterns
Understand situations that can make recovery feel more vulnerable.
Awareness in everyday life
Bring mindful attention into routines, relationships and decisions.
Meeting difficult moments
Stay present long enough to consider the next helpful response.
Acceptance and skilful action
Make room for difficulty while choosing actions that support recovery.
Relating differently to thoughts
Notice thoughts as mental events rather than instructions to follow.
Balance and self-care
Explore routines, needs and choices that strengthen recovery over time.
Support and continuing practice
Identify people, resources and practices that can support what comes next.
The themes are connected, but the work remains responsive to your recovery, circumstances and support needs.
Who MBRP may support
For the stage after change has begun
MBRP is intended for people who have already started making changes and want structured support to strengthen recovery in everyday life.
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Recovery is already underway
You may have completed treatment, stopped or reduced an addictive behaviour, or established an initial period of change.
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Everyday life is the next part
You want to understand how stress, relationships, routines, emotions and familiar situations may affect recovery.
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You want practice, not perfection
You are open to developing small, repeatable skills and bringing them into real situations between sessions.
MBRP is not a substitute for medically supervised detoxification, urgent mental health care or crisis support. If you are unsure whether this is the right stage, we can consider that together before you begin.
Who you will be working with
Niki Baggs
Therapeutic Coach & Addiction Specialist
I deliver every MBRP programme personally, one to one. My work draws on clinical training alongside direct experience in addiction and recovery support, so the sessions stay grounded in what actually helps day to day, not just in theory.
How the programme works
Structured support, arranged around your life
I offer the programme online across eight individual sessions. It has a clear sequence, while appointments can be arranged around your availability and the pace that feels manageable for you.
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Eight sessions
Each 60-minute session develops a different area of MBRP while connecting with the work already explored.
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Online and individual
Sessions take place one-to-one online, offering privacy and access from a setting that works for you.
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Flexible scheduling
Appointments can fit around your availability rather than needing to take place at the same time every week.
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Practice between sessions
You will be encouraged to explore manageable practices so the work can become useful in everyday recovery.
The structure stays consistent. The appointment pattern can remain flexible.
A simple next step
Would you like to talk it through?
A free 30 to 40 minute discovery call gives you space to ask questions and consider whether MBRP is the right form of support for this stage of your recovery. There is no obligation to continue.