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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Price I Pay
Sleep comes as no reliefIt gives grudgingly through gritted teethMaking sure there is a price to payIf i want to get through night to day It ensures it gives me nightmares and fearsMaking sure i wa...
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Inspiration
Blaine is my inspirationHe is also my determinationTo overcome my struggled pastAnd get busy living.....fast I want to see his future unfoldI want to see him as i grow oldFrom the first word...
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Diffusing My Atomic Heart
Knowing how to diffuse an arsenal of emotions is part of my well being and education. As the pressing tide of illness sweeps back and forth I am conscious I must not yield to it.I must mitigate this flow somehow while coping with reality...
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Those mouse lung days are over
Those mouse sized lungs days are over. In my fabulous future things are very different. The big thing ( let's just call it BT) that plays on my mind day in day out is no longer as big. In fact it is rather small. So small that it can be ignored,...
read moreBeating the Thief
…If you can fill each unforgiving minute with 6o seconds of distance run… Stephen wrote a brief history of it, Jules dreamed of traveling through it, some people waste it, when it is the most precious gift we ca...
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Aggrevation
I am absolutely torn on what to do. I am 51 days clean and I have way too many heavy decisions to make in a mind that is still cloudy and in need of some serious healing. I have been pressured nearly everyday by family ...
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