5-13-19 Answers for the Family Interview with Britten-Devereux
Guest Host: Gabriella van Rij

Addiction is affecting families more than ever. According to the NIH, “More than 70,200 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids.” Addiction plagues our communities.

Britten Devereux, CEO of two companies, masters-level clinician and distress tolerance trainer, sees addiction from a different angle, one we can touch and heal. For Britten, it’s not just personal, it’s her professional commitment to inform the modern family on healthy attachment and values-driven connection.

According to Britten, if addiction treatment does not address our screens habits, think twice about the provider. She asks us, “Have you noticed your heart rate or muscle tension change when you focus on screens? Depending on the chosen stimuli – gaming, email, social media, whatever your screen distraction – may not provide the relief you need. Hard to accept when screens to do so much for us.”

Space Before Change launched meaningful access to the behavioral healthcare challenges facing all of us. The membership is much less expensive than outpatient or inpatient treatment but uses the same modalities. Curricula writer and clinical leader, Britten, noticed the gap in services for those in addiction. It shouldn’t be inpatient, outpatient or “live with moral failure & fear.” We love Britten’s determination and creativity. She gives us a simple solution to the addiction of any kind AND to digital clutter. In her words, “This is not about fewer screens or less technology, Space Before Change is about balancing our high tech lives to incorporate mindfulness. It offers an accessible integrated keystone habit into the addiction treatment space called My 42, which involves replacing 21 minutes of screen time with 21 minutes of repair to live a connected, conscious life.”

Join us Britten shares how treating addiction requires self-awareness, which can be accessed after detox. With Space Before Change those in need find hope through an online service to treat their fear and addiction.

ABOUT BRITTEN DEVEREUX

Britten Devereux is a clinician, healthcare administrator, and writer. Managing 6 addiction and mental health facilities, Britten noticed the big gap in clinical services for addiction. This led to opening a second company, Space Before Change. While she continues her work as CEO of D’Amore Healthcare, Britten is creating more ways for life-saving services to be delivered. She revitalizes some of the industry’s old and demeaning ways of getting things done by studying outcomes, then raising the bar.

Spending time writing the material and training others in this practical guide to resolving cravings, triggers and emotional fractures more people are receiving the care they need. Space Before Change is a coaching and counseling membership for fear and addiction. A confidential, supportive online course to improve mood, cognition, and behavior. Centering on the keystone habit called My 42, participants engage the Repair Cycle. Different than costly care by appointment, this program raises self-awareness, self-respect, and self-regulation. Britten states, “Mental health is the axis point to intimacy, individual resilience, family cohesion, marketplace innovation, and chronic disease prevention.” Her primary goals are to reduce rehospitalization rates, reintroduce dignity into healthcare services and improve public health.