THE WELSH COUNCIL ON ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS
Asks for your support as we establish 'Stafell Fyw Caerdydd / Living Room Cardiff - a bilingual day-care rehabilitation centre that offers help to those help to those encountering problems with alcohol, drugs (prescribed or illicit), or any other dependency. The new centre will open in May 2011.
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Wynford Ellis Owen is travelling to make a difference...
Our Chief Executive, Wynford Ellis Owen, is one of this year's recipients of the prestigeous Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship. His journey begins on 25th September from Heathrow airport to New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Virginia. Follow his blog on this site or by clicking on the link, www.wcmt.org.uk or on www.wiredin.org.uk . Wynford will visit some new recovery community centre which achieve long-term recovery from severe alcohol and/or drug-related problems. Visiting these centres will provide him with very useful ideas on how to better build a strong "peer culture" into the services we're establishing in Cardiff by 2011.
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Our stand at the Urdd Eisteddfod in Llanerchaeron, 2010
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The Council's alcohol-free bar.
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No Room To Live Launch
Popular Welsh actor Wynford Ellis Owen’s first ever English language book, No Room to Live, was launched last night at The Temple of Peace, Cardiff. Written as a self-help book, it’s hard-hitting and thought-provoking, poignant yet suitably sobering.
Ellis Owen explains, “Alcoholism and dependency on drugs, both prescription and illicit, ruin lives. It’s a slippery slope into despair and despondency. You risk losing everything, your self-respect, your home, your family. I know because I’ve been there. My book, No Room to Live, focuses on how to regain control of life and find happiness once again.
“The road to recovery is not an easy one. It requires determination and commitment, strength and support. My book is one of many tools available to people to help them rebuild their lives. There is a range of support organisations out there too, including the Welsh Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs. So while life for sufferers might seem a lonely and depressing place, there is hope, comfort and support.
“I’m delighted to reveal that all proceeds from my book will be donated towards setting up a free, bilingual day-care rehabilitation centre in Cardiff. 'Stafell Fyw Caerdydd / Living Room Cardiff, will offer help for anyone experiencing difficulties relating to alcohol, drugs (prescribed or illicit), or any other dependency, such as eating disorders, love and sex addiction, gambling and self-harm. My book is intended, therefore, to help others to rebuild their lives.”
Actor Mark Lewis Jones commented, “It was a pleasure to support my fellow actor Wynford Ellis Owen as he launched his first ever English language book and an honour for me to be reading passages from his work at the event.
“No Room to Live depicts Wynford’s recovery from alcoholism and tells of his struggle to face his demons. It is written as a self-help book and I’m sure it will be an inspiration to others who find themselves trapped to an addiction of one kind or another. The book is testament to the fact that there is light and hope at the end of the tunnel."
Actor John Pierce Jones, added, “It takes great courage to write a book like this and I was delighted to support Wynford as he launched No Room to Live. It’s an absorbing account of Wynford’s journey from addiction to recovery, told with warmth and humour.
“The book is positive and inspiring, and makes recovery a reality for even more people across the UK and beyond. It reaches out to alcoholics, addicts, their families and provides them with new hope that there is a way out of one of the most invidious illnesses known to mankind.” |
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Buy your copy of No Room To Live by Wynford Ellis Owen now!
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No Room to Live offers a positive way out from the hell, told through the personal experiences and thoughts of a high profile former addict, Wynford Ellis Owen, who is now the Chief Executive of the Welsh Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs.
This is a personal reflection, and one that will appeal to anybody who wishes to escape from addiction but feels hopelessly trapped. The book is written with warmth and humour by a man who had it all, lost it all, and then, after much soul searching, successfully found lasting freedom from his own demons. If he did it, so can you...
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