Write Your Way to Recovery
Everyone has a story. Writing it down can help you in many different ways.
Write to Recovery is for anyone who has ever experienced some sort of distress, emotional difficulty or mental ill-health. It invites you to write your stories and experiences – and gives you tools to inspire you.
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How Writing Can Help
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You're the Hero
For many of us, recovery is a journey of ups and downs. Writing your story can help you see just how many challenges and obstacles you’ve overcome along the way.
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Find a way forward
We all feel ‘stuck’ at times. Words can help you get moving again. Writing about an achievable goal or a dream outcome can help you take those small, important steps towards your recovery.
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See your successes
It’s easy to spend a lot of time talking or thinking about your so-called ‘failures’. Write your story and you can start to see your successes clearly too.
Writing and Recovery
If you’ve ever put pen to paper to work through difficult feelings, you might already know how powerful words can be. In fact, creating and taking control of their own stories can help people to experience recovery.
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Future changes
When I was small,I had no worries at all.On the back of my mother and father,I got all the love, knowledge, stregnth and security I could gather. Then BANG!!!My new life had began.At o...
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Colon, comma, capital C.
A poem on the theme of vulnerability. There's a couple of sweary words in here so be advised if you don't care for that kind of thing. Colon, comma, capital C.A linguistic interpretationof a visual repre...
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My Spiritual Disabilit...
Graspingly, I say to myself, “O to have been healthily and effectively schooled in the functions and mechanisms of a genuine Faith.”If I was going to adopt one, as a young man, I would find that the basic tools with which to ...
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Past or Present
Free me from the past as it keeps coming into my head and messes with today. This is learned behaviour but how do you get free of it? I don't want to live or think about the past in a negative way or for it to affect my future or even today. Its h...
read moreFrightened and Stuck : a pause in recovery......
Today I am so afraid: afraid of the pain that might signify a chronic, progressive illness; afraid of the pain anyway, even if it doesn't, because it stops me doing what I would like to be able to do; afraid of the wide, heavy blanket of "can't...
read moreSarah Millican
Comedy!! Last night i went to the Clyde Auditorium to see Sarah Millican. She was absolutely amazing. I love when she gets the audience to participate. Her jokes were so funny and i was laughing all the way through. I went with my cousins wife ...
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