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‘The Importance of Hope in Healing From Depression’ by Douglas Bloch

In this video, author and depression counselor Douglas Bloch talks about how hope can be your best ally when recovering from depression. Please check out Douglas’s website and book on healing from...

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I Am Not Anonymous: Ellie, ‘Come With Me’

A Story from the excellent I Am Not Anonymous website is long overdue. Here is Ellie’s Story“: ‘When I was drinking, my life was ruled by shame.  It’s exhausting, living a double life. On the outside I...

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‘From Trauma to Transformative Recovery’ by Bill White

Another wonderful blog from Bill White, recently posted on his excellent website. Between 1986 and 2003, I served as the evaluator of an innovative approach to the treatment of addicted women with...

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Personal Favourite: ‘A journey toward recovery: From the inside out’ by Dale...

I’m going to take a breather for a few weeks from posting on Recovery Stories so I can take a break and then focus on some Sharing Culture work. Remember, there’s plenty of content on the website for...

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Research Shows the Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network

I first wrote this blog for Wired In To Recovery in January 2009, not long after the launch of the community website. ‘Last week, the British Medical Journal published a very interesting article on the...

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‘Hope is the Word That Can Free Us From Addiction’ by o2b3

One of the things I will be doing on this website is to ‘bring back’ some of the classic blogs from Wired In To Recovery. People who know me will tell you that I always keep banging on about hope....

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Key Factors Facilitating Indigenous Healing

When I first developed the educational healing resource Sharing Culture back in 2014, I did a great deal of reading about the healing of trauma and historical trauma. I summarised what I considered to...

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‘How Do I Know a Treatment Service is Recovery-oriented?’: Mark Ragins

Some treatment services today say they are doing recovery—using recovery-based care—when they are not in fact doing so. So how do you know that you are going to receive genuine recovery-based care...

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‘What is Recovery?: David Best

Here is a blog I wrote about David Best in May 2013. At that time, he had done a huge amount for the addiction recovery field and for the Recovery Movements in the UK and Australia, in terms of his...

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‘A Journey Toward Recovery: From the Inside Out’ by Dale Walsh

One of my favourite articles about recovery was written by Dale Walsh back in 1996 which really summed up what recovery and recovery principles mean to a person who has been suffering from mental...

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12 Principles of Indigenous Healing

When I first developed the educational healing resource Sharing Culture, I did a great deal of reading about the healing of trauma and historical trauma. I summarised what I considered to be 12...

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Factors that Facilitate Recovery

The importance of these factors has been demonstrated by listening to the narratives of recovering people about their journeys into and out of addiction (1,200 words). There are a number of key factors...

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Learning from the Experts

When I was a teenager, I competed in chess competitions around the UK, including the British Under-18 championship on two occasions. I was my county junior champion. To be competitive, I had to study...

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‘Our Recovery Stories’ eBook Available Tomorrow

‘Learn from the True Experts’ Recovery from addiction comes from the person with the problem. They do the work in overcoming their substance use and related problems, getting well, and getting their...

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Hope

In an earlier blog, I described the nature of addiction recovery, using what was written in the second last chapter, ‘Factors That Facilitate Recovery’, of my recently published eBook, Our Recovery...

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Factors Facilitating Recovery: Mutual Support

I continue with my series of blog posts relating to the factors that facilitate recovery from addiction, which I have detailed in the second last chapter of my eBook Our Recovery Stories: Journeys from...

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12 Principles of Indigenous Healing

When I first became interested in Indigenous healing a number of years ago, I did a great deal of reading about the healing of trauma and intergenerational trauma. I summarised what I considered to be...

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‘Hope is the Word That Can Free Us From Addiction’ by o2b3

One of the things I will be doing over the coming months is to ‘bring back’ some of the classic blogs from our online community Wired In To Recovery, which ran from 2008 – 2012. People who know me will...

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Research Shows the Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network

I am continuing this week’s focus on some of my favourite blog posts from the earlier days of Recovery Stories and our online community Wired In To Recovery. I first wrote this blog not long after the...

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‘The Four Stages of Recovery’ by Mark Ragins

Here’s a blog I first posted back in May 2013, not long after this website first launched. Mark Ragins is a leading recovery figure in the mental health field. He was a pioneer in setting up MHA...

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