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Today I didn’t want to get up, but tonight I feel like I am ready for a little recovery. You know one little step leads to another. So I went and laid some flowers where Michael died with a little card from me to him and then lit a candle in the chapel where he had his funeral. It was peaceful and sad [Susan C, Wired In]
Now what is it about the number one? Why is it so important in the grand scheme of things? We seem to crave some sort of oneness. When people get married they become one – which is a bit sci-fi if you think about it. There is one true god, one true faith, only one Alan Shearer. One love according to Bono and a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (not if you’re a bird it isn’t [Michaela, Wired In]
After nearly 14 months of being clean and sober, my attention and focus these past few months has been more orientated towards career goals and in particular training that will allow me to progress with those goals. So I’m really excited about traveling to Nottingham this Friday to start a Diploma in Therapeutic Drumming with The Therapeutic Drumming Foundation [Phil Hughes, Wired In]
All I wanted was to stop using drugs and then I thought my life would be fixed. Stopping using has allowed the space in time to be created for me to do the repairs necessary for me to be happy, joyous and free. The longer I’m clean, the more I grow. Whilst I grow I keep on learning about me and life comes back to life [Paveitwithgold, WIred In]
This is my first blog ever so please be patient and bear with me, lol. Don’t know how to start so I suppose it’s best from the beginning eh? I was 21 when first tried heroin. Old enough to know better really.I had everything. Had a 7 month old daughter who I worshipped, a decent job, great family and friends, my own place. Everything was going good for me [Shell, Wired In]
The “drug experience” produced by a particular psychoactive substance depends on both drug and non-drug factors [David Clark, Wired In]
Advocacy has often resulted from a scramble to create something independent and responsive to people’s needs. In other words it has been reactive rather than organised. It has evolved into a movement that is now recognised as a valuable commodity by individuals who use it, services and government alike [UK Recovery Walk 2010]
I’ve had a shitty day today. Then I remembered to take my friend’s advice! I have to learn to take the rough with the smooth; the tears with the laughter; the richness with the poverty. That’s what being sober is about [Wynford `ellis Owen, WIred In]
The harm caused by substance use needs to be considered in a variety of ways. Use of drugs, alcohol and solvents can carry risk to different aspects of life [Wired In]
In possibly one of the most divisive interviews given within the recovery community in the UK, Joe Gerstein, described as the founder of SMART Recovery, talks to Guardian journalist Denis Campbell in an article published on 10th March 2010 [Peapod, Wired In]
And as for choice what is all that about? Am I choosing to sit here and be some kind of confused mad woman who doesn’t even know herself any more? Or should I leap up and down and scream or calmly start writing a plan of action? [Susan C, Wired In]
Together we will be focusing on Community Recovery ‘Assets’, i.e. current strengths, abilities, experience, knowledge, passion and enthusiasm. These ‘Assets’ will be our foundation, the strengths-based framework from which we will build a strong Community based UK Recovery movement [UK Recovery Foundation]
If we want to see significant change in the world I think we need to step back a little from a focus on interventions and see if we can agree some core values, beliefs and principles. There are, and always will be, a huge number of routes to recovery [Alistair, Wired In]
This series of stages can provide a roadmap, albeit a fluid one, of the process of recovery that can be applied, specifically, to helping people recover from having a serious mental illness. For me, it has been a much better roadmap than the medical model’s version [David Clark, Wired In]
Most people don’t really care about the ins and outs, the statistics and forms, abstinence versus maintainence versus road to Damascus conversions. They just want to get better and/or have a better life [Michaela, Wierd In]
These days, recovery for me is not about struggling to stay sober or clean (although not using or drinking is still at the top of my daily ‘to do’ list). It’s about living life to the full. It’s about connecting: to others, to myself, to things bigger than me. It’s about putting something back. It’s about being grateful for a new chance [Peapod, Wired In]
I thought I was missing something here. Why are GPs getting paid extra cash on top of their ‘normal’ (usually substantial) basic salary, to treat drug users? Let me make one thing clear here from the onset, I’m not actually against GPs getting paid [Paps, Wired In]
Now I am not writing all this for sympathy, although I could live off sympathy allowing it to feed my disease, it’s just to get it out my head. Being honest I could do with one of the cards they have at the zoo on the animal cages reading: self pity harms me, I feed off it, please don’t feed me! [Louis, Wired In]
In simple terms, dependence can be seen as an impairment in a person’s ability or power to choose. The drug becomes more important to the person than other aspects of their life, which the majority of us would consider as essential [Wired In]
So as the continuing culture of binge drinking emerges, and with many of our clients becoming dependent on alcohol, is it time we revisited the recovery agenda within shared care? I say that because the standards within the treatment services are addressing many of the issues needed to help people sustain long term recovery [Oliver, Wired In]
