Retreat to Recovery
Coming into a rehab can be a very confronting time
The Retreat NZ, one of the country’s only residential treatment centres solely for alcohol, has a programme with a difference.
Clarity Distilling Company already has reason to pop some celebratory corks having bagged a handful of prestigious international awards, most recently the Gold and Best in Show at the 2024 London Spirits Competition, for their Clarity 2023 Gin – fending off hundreds of competitors from around the world.
Famed for falling from trees, having imbibed too much fermented fruit, the loveable kererū is undoubtedly New Zealand’s original drunk. Our human history of alcohol, however, is a relatively brief one.
I was sipping champagne at the Viaduct when the phone rang, interrupting the pretend lone celebration I was gushing to a restaurant manager about, at 9am.
After many years in the corporate world,
Janet Thompson, CEO of The Retreat NZ, a private residential alcohol rehab in Warkworth, found her passion in life – helping alcoholics.
