Recovery Stories

The Recovery Walk NI in Derry/Londonderry that Linda and I attended along with good friends at ARC Fitness. Such an enjoyable occasion. Four films, one of Gary Rutherford's (Founder of ARC) introduction, and three of the walk totalling just under 11 minutes.

Gary Rutherford Introduces Recovery Walk NI 2025 Gary Rutherford, Founder of ARC Fitness (Addiction Recovery Coaching), a recovery community based in Derry/Londonderry, opens the Recovery Walk Northern Irel...

‘What Happened? What Mental Health is Really About’: Bill Saunders
The compelling evidence is that all psychopharmacology changes your brain chemistry, even though there’s absolutely no evidence that your brain chemistry is in any way aberrant. Thus, you will get nasty side effects, develop tolerance, and if you cease using ‘psych meds,’ you will have nasty withdrawals (oops, sorry, ‘discontinuation syndrome.’) https://www.recoveryvoices.info/what-happened-what-mental-health-is-really-about-bill-saunders/

Recovery Storytelling and Advocacy: Meghann Perry
Be authentic. The best stories are short, honest, intimate, humble, and full of heart. They don’t need embellishment, scintillating details, or unbelievable feats. They don’t need self-promotion or manipulation to make the protagonist heroic. The truth of recovery stands powerfully enough on its own.

Recovery Storytelling and Advocacy: Meghann Perry Be authentic. The best stories are short, honest, intimate, humble, and full of heart. They don’t need embellishment, scintillating details, or unbelievable feats. They don’t need self-promotion or manipulation to make the protagonist heroic. The truth of recovery stands powerfully enough...

Beyond the Individual: David Best
David describes two important questions about recovery communities or groups: Can the connectedness of recovery communities inspire similar changes more broadly across the wider community? Can they be the glue or the inspiration for re-engaging a range of excluded and marginalised groups and individuals?

Beyond the Individual: David Best David describes two important questions about recovery communities or groups: Can the connectedness of recovery communities inspire similar changes more broadly across the wider community? Can they be the glue or the inspiration for re-engaging a range of excluded and marginalised groups and individ...