Towards Recovery

Huseyin describes how he first set up Towards Recovery in 2012, starting out by renting a church coffee shop for monthly evening gatherings. He and his colleagues wanted to make recovery visible, letting people see 'it' and decide whether they wanted to connect to it. They also organised a few conferences, with...

Towards Recovery is about bringing people together in order to help each other and themselves. Some people are in long-term recovery, others in the early stages of recovery, whilst others are thinking of moving on from their addiction. There is a good deal of empathy in the community and...

Earlier this year, Huseyin wrote a series of 40 articles which he called the Lent Blog. These articles were all related in some way or other to recovery.  They ranged from 'Staying motivated', to Strategies for overcoming feelings of shame and stigma', and 'Cultivating empathy'. Here is one of Huseyin's articles...

We speak to people who have lived experience of recovery from addiction, people who have been affected by addiction and those working in the addiction and recovery field—in its many contexts. There is a lot of information about addiction, but people get better and their stories need to be visible...