We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dr. Robb Kelly. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Dr. Robb below.

Dr. Robb, appreciate you joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

Before achieving sobriety, I was a hopeless, chronic alcoholic. I am not sure when I crossed the line from social drinking to alcoholism, I just know I did, and my life would never be the same again. I was married with children and had a great career; life could not have been better. The only problem was that I drank too much, and when I did, I lost control. When I enjoyed my drinking, I could not control it, and when I controlled my drinking, I could not enjoy life. Finally, alcoholism gripped me hard and like most people I sank quickly.

I lost millions of dollars, my business, my home, wife, and my two children. I went from family to friends to acquaintances until I finally became homeless and on the streets of Manchester, England for 14 months asking for handouts to purchase food but mainly liquor. While homeless, I was arrested several times, prone to blackouts that lasted for months, and was assaulted physically and sexually. I have had several near brushes with death, including blood loss from injuries during blackouts and an attempted suicide. To this day, I do not know how I was found or survived my suicide attempt.

In a moment of desperation, I fell to my knees in the cold rain, barefoot because my shoes had been stolen while I slept off another bender, and I looked up to heaven and said I cannot do this on my own anymore. For the first time I accepted that I was an alcoholic and I could not manage my life, moments later a man with a bible walked around the corner and asked me if I needed help. A stranger took me in, and I started my path to recovery. He let me stay with him with the rule that I was to attend AA meetings and though I had been in and out of the rooms for years, I quit fighting and finally found the answer I was looking for.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

The Robb Kelly Group offers a variety of services aimed at addiction recovery and life transformation. Our approach focuses on healing the body, mind, and spirit by addressing the underlying issues that contribute to addiction and other life challenges. Key services include:

1. **Addiction Recovery Coaching**: Personalized one-on-one coaching sessions that focus on the individual needs of each client. This includes addiction recovery, sober coaching, and interventions.

2. **Mental Health and Life Coaching**: These services cover a broad range of issues such as trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, stress management, chronic health issues, eating disorders, career transitions, and more.

3. **Behavioral and Trauma Therapies**: We utilize techniques such as Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Somatic Experiencing, and Brainspotting to address and heal trauma, which is often at the root of addictive behaviors.

4. **Family Systems and Relationship Coaching**: Recognizing that addiction affects the entire family, we offer coaching and therapy to help families recover together, improving communication and relationships.

5. **Confidential and Concierge Treatment**: For high-profile clients, we offer confidential, personalized treatment plans, often delivered via telehealth to ensure privacy and convenience.

The Robb Kelly Group emphasizes changing thought patterns to achieve lasting recovery, believing that positive thoughts lead to positive behaviors.

  Another service that we have recently added on is 9D Breathwork. 9D Breathwork combines ancient techniques with modern sound technology to provide a powerful tool for personal growth and healing. It aims to address physical, mental, and emotional well-being by offering benefits such as reduced stress, improved emotional regulation & a deeper sense of peace & purpose. This treatment uses multi-dimensional sound waves, binaural beats, Solfeggio frequencies, isochronic tones & 432Hz harmonic tuning. This combines with strategic breathing patterns which stimulate the vagus nerve- penetrating parts of the brain & trauma that might otherwise take years to address through other methods.

This is typically done in person but can also be done virtually & we are truly excited to offer it to anyone who could benefit. We do have clients sign a waiver, just to make sure they don’t suffer any pre-existing conditions such as hypertension or pregnancy, as we always want to make sure everyone is safe & healthy.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

One of the lessons I had to unlearn with the backstory is that it is really important to have at least one day a week of self care to unwind. While I’m helping others they always take away with them what they have learned and applied. My mental health started to go down the drain and in the end I did have a mental breakdown and had to go into a hospital. So the backstory of that of course is the childhood trauma that I suffered has carried through my life. I found out that when I do help; we have four chemicals in the brain that we need to be happy every single day and doing things like compliment people and being kind to each other.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

One of the things I think is most helpful in my industry is having gone through the trauma, the alcoholism and addiction, becoming homeless because I can relate to the patient. Many would say looking at me today that I don’t look like an alcoholic and addict. And it’s really important that I have the experience that I can share with them which hones in the trauma that they’re in. I think it’s very very important to say that college first of all is not going do this. It’s life experiences with my patients. I understand psychologically where they are, and what they’re going through. Alcoholism and addiction are the most misunderstood illnesses in the world -alcohol is one percent to do with alcoholism.

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