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* Home * Project * Why, What, How? * Our Website * About us * Blog * People * Communities * Eternal Media * North Wales Recovery Communities * Towards Recovery * Stories * Themes * Extras * Articles * Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) * Healing Trauma * Indigenous Healing * Recovery Stories * ✕ Enter your search 'I was a very busy addict. It took over my life entirely. Everything I did was to get heroin in me. You get into recovery… now what?!’ We built Eternal Media for the Now Whats.' [Marcus Fair] '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.' [Huseyin Djemil] 'We actually get well and we gain strength by giving our time and our efforts away to other people.' [James Deakin] 'When you are sitting with a bunch of hopeful people who are absolutely convinced that you can move forward from the dark space you’re in, it’s really hard to resist that.' [David McCartney] 'We hear these phrases that “Recovery is contagious”, and it is. So you need a community in which that contagion can happen, in which it can be seeded and passed on.' [Wendy Dossett] 'I think the notion of commissioning recovery is almost an oxymoron. Because if recovery is coming from within and the community and the peers, you can’t actually buy it as a commissioner.' [Wulf Livingston] ABOUT THE PROJECT Recovery Voices, developed by David Clark and Wulf Livingston, captures conversations about what works in supporting recovery from addiction, and in the development of peer-led recovery communities, from a range of individuals with lived experience, as well as friends of recovery. We highlight common messages and learnings that come from these conversations, providing a resource for people working with, and supporting, recovery and recovery communities. We celebrate the lives and successes of recovering people and recovery communities, and in doing so enhance the visibility of recovery and highlight what can be achieved. We encourage the development of new peer-led recovery communities and their interaction with other initiatives. THE PROJECT THE WEBSITE THE TEAM BLOGS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27th June 2024 Author: David Clark Posted: 27th June 2024 Categories * Blog TAKING A BREAK I've therefore decided to take a period away from our Recovery Voices project, so that I can focus more on the recovery book I want to write and spend more time 'being'. This post will be my last until the beginning of August. This focus on book writing and 'being' time is all the more important in that I have a significant... Do you like it? Read more 26th June 2024 Author: David Clark Posted: 26th June 2024 Categories * Blog THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF ETERNAL MEDIA: MARCUS FAIR Marcus and his team receive commissions to make films for health boards, the police and prisons. They take out people in recovery as crew members for this work, helping them to gain valuable experience. People in recovery also participate in Recovery in Focus courses... Do you like it? Read more 25th June 2024 Author: David Clark Posted: 25th June 2024 Categories * Blog SECOND THEME CLIP PLAYLIST: MARCUS FAIR ‘But the other skills they are getting are all being fed in under the radar, the confidence, the self-esteem. The sense of worthlessness is going. You know, that self-loathing that us addicts have had in addiction. It’s overwhelming that self-loathing. And that kind of goes and people don’t even know. All they know is that... Do you like it? Read more More Blogs PEOPLE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22nd September 2023 Author: Wulf Livingston & David Clark Posted: 22nd September 2023 Categories * People MARCUS FAIR Marcus Fair, Founder of Eternal Media, describes his descent into an addiction to heroin and crack cocaine that lasted 25 years. His last visit to prison saved his life and helped him conceive the idea of Eternal Media, based on the 'Now What?, which makes high impact documentary films and is an inspiring recovery... Do you like it? Read more 12th February 2024 Author: Wulf Livingston & David Clark Posted: 12th February 2024 Categories * People RHODA EMLYN-JONES OBE What is so remarkable about this interview, and in a sense what I continue to learn from Rhoda, is how the best of practice is built on the most obvious, but often neglected, cornerstones of honesty, respect and understanding.... Rhoda provides us with a clear message about the value of hope and strengths over negative... Do you like it? Read more 12th September 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 12th September 2023 Categories * People HUSEYIN DJEMIL Huseyin Djemil describes Towards Recovery, the recovery community that he developed in Henley-on-Thames in 2012. He also talks about some of his work as a freelance consultant, and reflects on various themes relating to addiction, recovery and treatment. Huseyin is in long-term recovery from an addiction to Class A drugs. Do you like it? Read more More People A RECOVERY COMMUNITY PROVIDES: HOPE UNDERSTANDING A SENSE OF BELONGING ACCEPTANCE AND SUPPORT ENGAGEMENT IN MEANINGFUL ACTIVITIES OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE BACK TO OTHERS A RECOVERING PERSON: GAINS A STRONGER MOTIVATION TO CHANGE POSSESSES AN ENHANCED SELF-ESTEEM BECOMES AN EMPOWERED CITIZEN OVERCOMES STIGMA (SHAME) FINDS A SENSE OF PURPOSE ACQUIRES A NEW IDENTITY COMMUNITIES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th August 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 10th August 2023 Categories * Communities TOWARDS RECOVERY 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... Do you like it? Read more 10th August 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 10th August 2023 Categories * Communities NORTH WALES RECOVERY COMMUNITIES North Wales Recovery Communities (NWRC) comprises a number of communities, including a residential rehab at Penrhyn House, Growing for Change, with its gardens and allotments, and Bwyd Da Bangor (Good Food Bangor), a community cafe/restaurant that provides the best food on the High Street. Penrhyn House offers space for various... Do you like it? Read more 10th August 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 10th August 2023 Categories * Communities ETERNAL MEDIA Eternal Media is a media production social enterprise and charity, located in Wrexham, that makes high impact documentary films. Their professional, award-winning producers empower and mentor volunteer film crews, which comprise people who are rebuilding their lives and are recovering from addiction and/or an involvement in... Do you like it? Read more More Communities STORIES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20th September 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 20th September 2023 Categories * Stories ADDICTED TO HEROIN & CRACK COCAINE: MARCUS FAIR ‘Oh shit, I’ve got to do everything that I did yesterday again today, and that’s the horrible thing about addiction. It’s the same thing, the same crime, the same people, doing the same desperate things living the way you do.’ Marcus points out that when you’re ‘asleep’ after taking... Do you like it? Read more 3rd November 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 3rd November 2023 Categories * Stories PRISON DETOX UNIT: HUSEYIN DJEMIL When he worked as Drug Strategy Co-ordinator for the seven London Prisons, Huseyin was asked to review the detox unit at Wormwood Scrubs prison. He found awful conditions in the unit and made a number of recommendations for improvement which were taken up by the prison. Huseyin describes the resulting 55-bed... Do you like it? Read more 17th November 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 17th November 2023 Categories * Stories RECOVERY ADVOCACY & THE SYSTEM: WENDY DOSSETT When you are independent of the system you are treated with less respect, and even disrespected by the system—‘you don’t know what you are doing, you are a bunch of amateurs, you’re not professional, or you’re not subject to any regulations…’ You are dismissed for speaking out... Do you like it? Read more More Stories THEMES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4th March 2024 Author: David Clark Posted: 4th March 2024 Categories * Themes HOW BIG YOU ARE AS A PROBLEM: RHODA EMLYN-JONES OBE We have fallen into the trap of releasing resources only when people can be defined as a big problem. So, if that's the way to get service and release resources to people, then the conversations between professionals and between professionals and the citizens are all about... Do you like it? Read more 13th September 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 13th September 2023 Categories * Themes TRAUMA AND ADDICTION James Deakin says: ‘For the vast majority of us it [addiction] is self-management of an underlying condition, it’s self-medication, or it’s just using any drink or drug to move away from a set of feeling[s] for a period of time.’ Addiction is often a symptom of a psychological problem, such as the impact of trauma. When people arrive at Penrhyn House, the residential part of North... Do you like it? Read more 1st December 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 1st December 2023 Categories * Themes IDENTITY: DR. DAVID MCCARTNEY Dr. David McCartney describes that as his drinking problem was becoming worse he developed the ability to split what he was drinking from what his patients with alcohol problems were drinking. The amounts weren't that different. However, David rationalised that he couldn't have a problem, as he was in a suit and seeing... Do you like it? Read more More Themes EXTRAS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21st September 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 21st September 2023 Categories * Extras * Indigenous Healing SENIOR AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR 2021: DR MIRIAM-ROSE UNGUNMERR-BAUMANN ‘Miriam Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann (AO) is an Aboriginal Elder from Nauiyu (Daly River), where she served for many years as the principal of the local Catholic primary school. She is a renowned artist, writer, activist and public speaker, a remarkable spirit-filled woman known for her reflections on Dadirri (inner deep listening and quiet... Do you like it? Read more 14th September 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 14th September 2023 Categories * Extras * Indigenous Healing THE HEALING FOREST 'It means that we must actively heal the community and its institutions at the same time an individual works on his or her own healing from alcohol or drugs or other unwell behaviours. The individual affects the community and the community affects the individual. They are inseparable from the point of view of addiction recovery.' Do you like it? Read more 20th September 2023 Author: David Clark Posted: 20th September 2023 Categories * Extras * Healing Trauma FULFILLING TRAUMA’S HIDDEN PROMISE: JAMES GORDON Dr Gordon briefly refers to several topics, but the main focus of his talk is on the Center’s work in Gaza. He starts by describing how he is sitting in Shigeo, a Gaza suburb bombed out during the war with Israel, with a group of eight children who have lost their fathers. He’s working with the children in a healing circle group. Do you like it? Read more ABOUT US -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David Clark's career has included neuroscience, recovery advocacy, and the promotion of Indigenous healing practices. He has been a storyteller, educator, researcher, and community developer. David’s is passionate about promoting the work of recovering people and their friends. He is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology. More about David Wulf Livingston has had a lifelong relationship with alcohol and other drugs. This relationship has come through personal use, familial and social contexts, working in hospitality, as a social work practitioner and latterly as a researcher. He is currently Professor of Alcohol Studies at Wrexham University in North Wales. More about Wulf Ash Whitney of Wired up Wales is a web developer with 23 years experience based in Wales (UK) specialising in WordPress development. Ash has an established client base that includes customers from small business, government, publishing, charity, community organisations, academic and health sectors. More about Ash TESTIMONIALS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I’ve been learning from David’s websites for over 20 years now, and his new > Recovery Voices initiative with Wulf Livingston has added a new dimension to > my experiences. I love the films and through them I am ‘meeting’ new people, > discovering exciting recovery community initiatives, and learning even more > about recovery and related matters. It’s a little university… and it’s only > just begun! Michael Scott, Australia (45 years in recovery from alcohol > addiction, 40 years as a drug and alcohol treatment practitioner) > David’s work across many decades has laid the groundwork for words and > practices that today trip off the tongue, such as ‘recovery movement’ and > ‘cultural trauma’. The Recovery Voices website brings his insights from the > field into one home. It also invites us to the meal table within that house. > He and his collaborator Wulf Livingston rightly reserve a special seat for the > people and communities whose stories we must hear into full expression to move > towards genuine reconciliation. Thank you, David, for your continued > groundbreaking work and the wholehearted way you convene us into the heartland > of an alternative future. Cormac Russell, Author of Rekindling Democracy and > Co-author of The Connected Community. > I’m glad that this new website has been launched—it’ll help people share their > experience of what it means to be human and help remind them of the simplicity > of the recovery journey to wholeness. Congratulations to my friends David, > Wulf, and colleagues—their dedication to helping others navigate their > humanness is something I’ve long admired. Wynford Ellis Owen, Former CEO at > Living Room Cardiff, Wales > Congratulations on the new website! Bill White (Addiction Recovery Advocate, > Historian and Researcher) > The new resource Recovery Voices digs into the lives and experiences of people > who, in recovery themselves, spend time with others seeking, or in, recovery > from addictions. In identifying themes, it draws out the rich diversity of > experiences, showing how there is no single 'grand narrative' of recovery, no > single 'recipe', just lots of people living out their own authentic lives in > ways that they greatly prefer. The site represents a tonne of voluntary work > from David Clark in Australia and Wulf Livingston in Wales. Their > collaboration in itself shows how recovery seeds in, and spreads from, the > spaces between people in relationships. Professor Wendy Dossett, University of > Chester, England > I’ve been learning from David’s websites for over 20 years now, and his new > Recovery Voices initiative with Wulf Livingston has added a new dimension to > my experiences. I love the films and through them I am ‘meeting’ new people, > discovering exciting recovery community initiatives, and learning even more > about recovery and related matters. It’s a little university… and it’s only > just begun! Michael Scott, Australia (45 years in recovery from alcohol > addiction, 40 years as a drug and alcohol treatment practitioner) > David’s work across many decades has laid the groundwork for words and > practices that today trip off the tongue, such as ‘recovery movement’ and > ‘cultural trauma’. The Recovery Voices website brings his insights from the > field into one home. It also invites us to the meal table within that house. > He and his collaborator Wulf Livingston rightly reserve a special seat for the > people and communities whose stories we must hear into full expression to move > towards genuine reconciliation. Thank you, David, for your continued > groundbreaking work and the wholehearted way you convene us into the heartland > of an alternative future. Cormac Russell, Author of Rekindling Democracy and > Co-author of The Connected Community. > I’m glad that this new website has been launched—it’ll help people share their > experience of what it means to be human and help remind them of the simplicity > of the recovery journey to wholeness. Congratulations to my friends David, > Wulf, and colleagues—their dedication to helping others navigate their > humanness is something I’ve long admired. Wynford Ellis Owen, Former CEO at > Living Room Cardiff, Wales > Congratulations on the new website! Bill White (Addiction Recovery Advocate, > Historian and Researcher) > The new resource Recovery Voices digs into the lives and experiences of people > who, in recovery themselves, spend time with others seeking, or in, recovery > from addictions. In identifying themes, it draws out the rich diversity of > experiences, showing how there is no single 'grand narrative' of recovery, no > single 'recipe', just lots of people living out their own authentic lives in > ways that they greatly prefer. The site represents a tonne of voluntary work > from David Clark in Australia and Wulf Livingston in Wales. Their > collaboration in itself shows how recovery seeds in, and spreads from, the > spaces between people in relationships. Professor Wendy Dossett, University of > Chester, England > I’ve been learning from David’s websites for over 20 years now, and his new > Recovery Voices initiative with Wulf Livingston has added a new dimension to > my experiences. I love the films and through them I am ‘meeting’ new people, > discovering exciting recovery community initiatives, and learning even more > about recovery and related matters. It’s a little university… and it’s only > just begun! 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