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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The tears he didn't wa...
Thank you North Ayrshire Recovery and Wellbeing College WRITE TO RECOVERY group for giving me a fresh perspective.
Soul Satisfaction
I'm searching for a soul satisfactionDirection, Creation and ReactionFrom The Power deep withinForgiving of all sins Buried deep within The SecretAll my pains and regretsWaiting on the t...
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A New Friend
You seemed like someone I’d likeBut as you silently watched meYou looked straight through me You saw beneath my enthusiasmInstantlyTo the uncertainty below I thought I&rsqu..;.
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The Whole is Greater
I look at other people and wonder what it’s like being them. (Not me being them, but them being them). It’s not so much the details of their thoughts, emotions and actions that I'm trying to grasp, it’s more a quest to try and understand what it...
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Overcoming the Power of numbers. Today, I let myself down, I step back on the scale and seen those numbers, those numbers which drive me deeper into illness. I have managed to refrain from doing this myself as I know it becomes a game and alr...
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