In this week's episode, we talk about recovery in the community - how this is the really powerful space where sustainable and healing change does and can take place. Today's guests are Stuart Green, Drug and Alcohol Service Manager at ASPIRE, and Anne Marie Ward, CEO of Faces & Voices of Recovery UK (FAVOR-UK).

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Note: In all of our Changing Lives Podcasts we make references to topics such as addiction, homelessness, mental health problems and domestic violence. For more information on our work or to seek support for any of the issues we discuss, you can visit https://www.changing-lives.org.uk/

In this two-part discussion, hosts Andy and Sommer are joined by Sohan and David to discuss how we can create recovery services that are culturally responsive, particularly to the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community. This second sepisode takes a deeper dive into the services currently available to BAME people in recovery, who commissions them and what the future holds for them.

In this two-part discussion, hosts Andy and Sommer are joined by Sohan and David to discuss how we can create recovery services that are culturally responsive, particularly to the Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community. This first episode explores what recovery means to each guest, before giving a general overview of the specific issues facing culturally diverse people in recovery.

It is widely believed that we use substances and processes to change the way we feel. In this episode, psychotherapist and clinical supervisor Marianne speaks to host Iain about how we feel about our "selves", touching on the topics of shame, guilt and self-worth and how we change those within our recovery journey.

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Note: In all of our Changing Lives Podcasts we make references to topics such as addiction, homelessness, mental health problems and domestic violence. For more information on our work or to seek support for any of the issues we discuss, you can visit https://www.changing-lives.org.uk/

In this episode, host Andy speaks to Oonagh Mallon and John Liddell, local authority leads from North Tyneside and Northumberland, about what it's like to commission work that helps people in recovery. They speak about their roles, their learning from working in the sector and their hopes for the future.

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Note: In all of our Changing Lives Podcasts we make references to topics such as addiction, homelessness, mental health problems and domestic violence. For more information on our work or to seek support for any of the issues we discuss, you can visit https://www.changing-lives.org.uk/

Welcome to Season Two of the Recovery Talks Podcast! In this episode, hosts Andy, Iain and Sommer - along with producer Bridget - reflect on what it is like to be in recovery around Christmas and New Year as well as milestone birthdays and other large events. What's it like to be sober at a time of excess? What does 'success' and goal setting look like to a person in recovery?

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Note: In all of our Changing Lives Podcasts we make references to topics such as addiction, homelessness, mental health problems and domestic violence. For more information on our work or to seek support for any of the issues we discuss, you can visit https://www.changing-lives.org.uk/

In the final episode of series one, hosts Sommer, Iain and Andy come together to reflect on what happened and what they learned, as well as remembering the amazing stories and voices that we have heard in each of the episodes. 

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Note: In all of our Changing Lives Podcasts we make references to topics such as addiction, homelessness, mental health problems and domestic violence. For more information on our work or to seek support for any of the issues we discuss, you can visit https://www.changing-lives.org.uk/

In this episode we talk with the leadership team of Changing Lives, a national charity celebrating its 50th year in 2021. In this discussion, we talk about how the charity has shaped by the many people that have connected with us over the years, and what the future holds for us and for the concept of recovery.

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Note: In all of our Changing Lives Podcasts we make references to topics such as addiction, homelessness, mental health problems and domestic violence. For more information on our work or to seek support for any of the issues we discuss, you can visit https://www.changing-lives.org.uk/

Host Andy Ryan is joined by Francis Simpson and Laura Furness for a discussion of the word 'vulnerability'. They discuss their personal experiences of using the term or having it used to describe them, as well as how vulnerability and recovery are linked, and how we all need to be a little 'vulnerable' to look after our health and wellbeing.

Note: In all of our Changing Lives Podcasts we make references to topics such as addiction, homelessness, mental health problems and domestic violence. For more information on our work or to seek support for any of the issues we discuss, you can visit https://www.changing-lives.org.uk/

What is it like to experience addiction and recovery from the viewpoint of a loved one? In this episode, Eve talks to host Iain about her experiences of recovery and the impact of being on that journey with a loved one.

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Note: In all of our Changing Lives Podcasts we make references to topics such as addiction, homelessness, mental health problems and domestic violence. For more information on our work or to seek support for any of the issues we discuss, you can visit https://www.changing-lives.org.uk/