Write Your Way to Recovery
Everyone has a story. Writing it down can help you in many different ways.
This website is designed to help people affected by mental health problems on their journey of recovery. 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 affected by mental health problems to experience recovery.
Learn MoreWhy does it have to be...
Why can't everyone get along, I have friends but the problem is that none of them get along but I don't get why. I have my friends that are classmates, my flatmates from last year and just other friends. Yet it seems none of them get al...
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Constantly worrying
Why can't I make plans and then actually go through with them ? I make plans then I spend hours worrying that someone I'm going with won't like it even if I have asked and they said they wanted to come with me. ...
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Territorial
A force inside my mind,inside my chest,a force that feels something like pain,but not quite,something like fear,urges me to go. How much will I surrender to this feeling,this fo...
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Another Road.....
Another Road..... A solitary tear succumbsand tracks a slow pathover an impossible cheekbone. Defying gravity, it clings motionlessas though fearful to leave ski...
read moreBeing kind
sometimes I get really disappointed in myself when things get hard. It can be so difficult to be accepting of those times to an extent to be kind to yourself. I sometimes feel like its a complete failure. Other people tell me to be proud of myself...
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