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No… this isn’t Dave’s new Hollywood blockbuster (we are allowed to dream though), this is real!
Since switching jobs, I have been commuting in and out of Manchester city centre. The number of people who I’ve bumped into who I worked with in treatment and are now doing fantastically well in their own, personal recovery is amazing!
Some have now got their own flats and are excited about ‘doing them up’. Others are at college or adult education, some are volunteering in services, others are members of city center gyms, and some are working.
No, I am not Bruce Willis. I am Dave Healey and the fact is… people are coming out the other end and, more importantly, maintaining it – using whatever they feel they need to sustain it!
Brilliant!!!
Inspiring stuff Dave. It’s true, there are is a face and there are faces to recovery now. There is also a voice to recovery and unless I am very much mistaken, it’s grown from a barely audible whisper to a level that is not really possible to ignore.
The ability to see clean people may have been a bit mysterious and undoubtedly a bit of a super power a few years ago, but I’m glad that its becoming the norm.
Like it Dave, there is nothing warmer and gives myself emense pleasure in seeing others this end finding their own paths to recovery back, new homes, a job and the look on their faces just shows me how proud they are in all they have achieved.
It would be reassurring to keep believing that this transition will keep adding strength to service users and the recovery movement.
Best Wishes to you and all.
Hi dave
I bumped into my councellor the guy who put me on my road to recovery.
He was so happy to hear how well i was doing and I was so happy to see him and tell him how i was doing.
I have always wanted to thank the guy but I didnt know if i could go and just see him.
I told him i was wanting to chat to him to hopefully spread the word of smart and get a f2f meeting started.
Mostly to thank him for what he did for me.He told me to pop in that i knew where he was.
he was very interested in smart then he discharged me as he could not help me anymore and i was wasting my time going to him, i was learning more and coping better using smart recovery.
It is good to meet up with people that have helped us in recovery.
Thanks to everyone who has helped me
“There is also a voice to recovery and unless I am very much mistaken, it’s grown from a barely audible whisper to a level that is not really possible to ignore”
Great quote there David…
Its almost as if it was hush hush to mention recovery several years ago.
People need to remember that they can become inspirational and should be shouting about their recovery so it cannot be ignored, ever again!
Yenwarp – you’re right about people finding their own paths to recovery.
People have now got choices and different models of recovery to suit them.
Iain – take that as a compliment the fact that a professional steps away from assisting your recovery.
You are doing it yourself utilising all that SMART has to offer.
Good on you pal!
I quit on my own. But, I was not thinking or feeling [ emotions not physical]. all that well. ‘Unfinished business’ as it was once said. One thing that I did was go to SMART on line. I used the tool box; message board and chat room. All were useful to me; SMART helped the natural healing process. I figured out what I wanted to do; accomplished my goals.
I found out that having is better than wanting.
