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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How are we supposed to...
How are we supposed to be?Don't say "yourself" thats plain to see!How are we supposed to be?Restricted by our limitations or wild and free?How are we supposed to be?Looking over our shoulder, whose wa...
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Soulmate fade
So, you think you’ve found your soulmate?Have you really?Are you sure? Are you trying to control her?Make her who you want to be? i thought I’d found my soulmate
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Life's an Enigma
Is it wrong to care about people? Even when they really don't care about you? Is it wrong to act like a concerned parent when you really are nothing to them? Is it wrong to worry about nothing? Is it it wrong to think of someone on a consta...
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ADHD, PTSD, ANXIETY
I am really struggling at the moment, I feel so down.Lately my anixety has been really, really bad. Everything is setting me off into a blur of not being able to breathe, not being able to see straight. Not being able to cope.
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Poem and Moan
Please note:this piece contains references to self harm Darkness Descending Darkness descending Falling through time. fear, never-ending Hell, this is mine. Dragging me downward Spirals, have no use Fall further forward To horrifyin...
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