Towards Recovery offers a Recovery Cafe in Henley-on-Thames, as well as an online Recovery Cafe, where people recovering from addiction can get support and encouragement. It aims to help people connect with others, re-connect with themselves and the world around them, and make sustainable changes to create a life of their own choosing.
Towards Recovery shows that people in recovery are community assets who can positively contribute to the wellbeing of those around them. The recovery community was founded in 2012 by Huseyin Djemil, who is in long-term recovery from an addiction to Class A drugs.
Huseyin Djemil's Reflections
... as I've moved along this recovery journey, I've realised that it is about trauma, when I look back at my life. It's also about not just trauma causing addiction, but trauma causing a dislocation of me from myself. The drugs and all the other stuff that came after that is a searching to reconnect to myself somehow. And you just end up more lost than ever.
We wanted to show people recovery, and not addiction. We wanted to show people that people in recovery are assets. They feed the soil of where they live. They’re the people who have walked through deep water and come out the other side.
The real deal in recovery is being bitten by the spider, is having that internal transformation somehow, that makes you look at everything differently. And it changes you.... [After rehab] I was like Spiderman, with all of Batman's tools.
Until the lion learns to write, all the stories will be from the hunters’ perspective… I guess these videos, the blogs, and all of that, is the lion learning to write.
Towards Recovery YouTube Playlist
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