About
Who are we?
We're a group of ex-addicts who managed to break the habit through rehab, and we're here to share what we learnt along the way and offer support to anyone who's trying to make the changes they need to.
While learning the science of addiction is important for recovery, the real healing happens by hearing the experiences of others who have been through it, from each of which a small piece will resonate with you, and putting them together in your own pattern is how YOUR story gets written.
While we understand that getting everything you need in one place at one time, is the best way to understand it, hearing 'their version' from someone who has been through it, is going to be far more impactful than from someone, however well-intentioned, who hasn't.
And that's what triggered (pun intended) the Kicking Pablo project.
About Kicking Pablo.
Anyone going to rehab, will normally have done a bit of research online about addiction and also learning about Rehab and what it can do. However, deciding to go is a very intimidating step, one normally only overcome after conversing with an ex-addict or more who attended Rehab and share their experience, bringing enough of a sense of comfort to take the step to go. What happens then is normally after a bunch of google searching, you book your a Rehab via an online booking platform of sorts. The affiliate referral commissions attached to your booking then go to the booking platform whose only role was to display the Rehab Centre's information and booking link.
At Kicking Pablo, we only partner with Rehab Centres that one of us has attended and can give a personal overview of. Should you choose to attend one of them, the referral fees come to us, which we then use to fund this project, split into, maintaining and growing the organisation, expanding the services it offers, into new territories, giving ex-addicts an opportunity to make a living, and last but not least, reserving a minimum third of the fees into a kitty which, once large enough, we will spin off as the 'Kicking Pablo Foundation', which will actually fund up to 50% of the cost of rehab for those who can't afford the full amount.
Please do not feel obliged to book through us, but if we have helped you in any way get to deciding to go to rehab, and you choose somewhere you found on your own, and have a good experience, then we will ask you to repay us in a different form, by recommending them to us by filling in our 'Centre Experience Overview', so that we may add them to our list, growing the network and providing more options to others.
Basically, we are trying to keep the money within the industry, where it can be utilised better by helping others.
"I can't say thank you enough for helping me to stop being so scared of my addiction. I completed my one month rehab six weeks ago, I am now ten weeks sober and have not felt this alive in well over 20 years. You made all the difference..."
'F***', Malta.