200 DAYS SOBER. BY CLAIRE.
Recovery is a very personal thing. What works for one person, can be very different from the next. That much we know. But…
CHANGING MY MINDSET ON ALCOHOL.
To be quite honest I thought it would be a bit shit. But I accepted, completely and totally, for the first time that I was incapable, 100%, no arguments, totally and utterly incapable of drinking ‘normally’.
5 WAYS’ OPEN MIC NIGHT REVIEW.
As the dust settles on last Fridays open Mic Night @5Ways in Leeds, our very own Jem Stuart reviews the star performers at this fantastic evening of creativity in recovery.
THE MYSTERY OF LOUISE DELAGE.
Those of you who use Instagram will know the score. We browse through random stream of images, liking as we go, occasionally buying…
HEY LITTLE GIRL. BY MEGAN.
Hello again. If it’s okay… I’d like you all to meet somebody. Everyone, this is Megan. I stumbled across Megan on Twitter recently,…
OUT OF TIME. BY SIMON MEASURES.
Out of Time is another powerful piece of poetry by Simon Measures. Hot on the heals of a triptych of work this month. Enjoy.
SOCIAL MEDIA AND ‘ROSÉ CULTURE’
Social media can be a fantastic tool for networking, staying up to date, meeting others, learning new things and quite frankly just passing…
MY DAD AND ME. BY SIMON.
My Dad and Me. By Simon Measures. My Dad, Eddy, was an addict. Just like me. Unlike me, he never found a…
TRICKY. BY SIMON MEASURES.
TRICKY By Simon Measures Trying to get to the poetic essence of a thing, a feeling, an experience or group thereof…
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE DRINK.
Being in recovery gives us a great deal of time to reflect. Making sense of a myriad of jumbled memories becomes par for…
HOW TO DEAL WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
Are other people sometimes “a bit much”? Do you ever feel like “they” are more trouble than they’re worth? Yeah, me too… been…
THE NAME’S MAGUIRE… BROGAN MAGUIRE.
New week… new face. Recovery.Wrx has a new reporter & sub-editor, Brogan Maguire, a 21 year old journalism student with a passion…
1000 DAYS ALCOHOL FREE.
OK. My choice of featured image for this post: the numbers on a running track. Go figure… It’s obvious, isn’t it? Maybe not.…
PANTS, PIMMS & POSH PEOPLE.
Phew. The Football Thing and The Tennis Thing have come to a close. Just, phew. Now, I know not all of you…
POTTY ABOUT RECOVERY
Happy “start of another week”. One of the best things about running this blog is the almost never-ending supply of “feel good” stuff…















