Antony and Skip of TEN/28 split their time between helping clients tell their stories through video and photo and making a new mini-documentary every week for 2019.
Skip Stokes, CPRC
Certified Professional Recovery Coach
A new life is possible. Let’s explore it together.
Recovery Coaching
I provide compassionate support and resources to individuals navigating the journey of recovery from addiction. Through personalized coaching, education, and advocacy, l empower individuals to reclaim their lives, foster resilience, and build a thriving future. I am committed to promoting holistic healing, reducing stigma, and fostering a supportive community where every person's journey towards recovery is honored and celebrated.
For many living with addiction, substances or processes began as (or became) the solutions for difficulties and unfavorable experiences. Often times these “solutions” or coping mechanisms created more issues fostering shame and guilt leading to isolation.
As a Certified Professional Recovery Coach, my work is to understand why addiction happens and how preventing relapse is possible with strength-based tools and learned skills. It is my belief that every tool a person needs for their recovery is already held by the individual. The old adage of “putting tools in your tool belt” isn’t enough. We need to have the skills to use our tools correctly. This comes from practice and experience.
My approach to recovery focuses on favorable and purposeful experiences moving a client closer to their goals. Recovery cannot be learned it has to be experienced.
Reading every book written about alcohol will not get a person drunk. No matter how much knowledge is gained, the effects of alcohol are only experienced by the act of putting it in a person’s body. There has to be a physical experience with alcohol to receive its effects.
This is also true in addiction. A person cannot be taught to live addiction free, they must experience a different life and learn from those experiences.
BIO: Pastor turned documentary filmmaker turned recovery coach. That about covers the last decade of my life. In December of 2014 I put down the drink and chose a new path in sobriety. Through the years many things became more apparent. As I transitioned from working in a church to following my dream of filmmaking I discovered the stigma associated with the disease of addiction. In that time I was also given the gift of allowing everything I thought I believed about faith and spirituality to be wrestled with and found, on the other side, a freedom to remain curious about the things I know little about and focus on the lives right in front of me.
If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction and needs resources, a coach or just a connection, reach out to me. The best news I can give is these things never have to be done alone.