Phil and Sandy Valentine of CCAR (Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery) interview Calliese Conner in Episode 109 of their Recovery Matters Podcast. What a fantastic conversation between three beautiful people. Find out more about Calliese and the work she does alongside her mother Naetha Uren with their Recovery Coach Academy UK.
‘Calliese Conner shares her journey to becoming a recovery coach and building a recovery community in the UK. She reflects on her experience with the Recovery Coach Academy and her passion for bringing more recovery resources to her community. Also discussed is the importance of treating people as resources and the impact of language and relationships in the recovery process. CCAR 4recovery, 22 February 2023.’
One of my favourite bloggers has been Phil Valentine, Executive Director of the 
During the many years I spent working in the addiction and mental health field, first as a neuroscientist and later (2000-2008) in the UK helping empower people to facilitate their recovery (healing), I rarely heard the word ‘trauma’ being used.
Here is the Forward of a book written by Perth Clinical Psychologist Bill Saunders, 
Here is another 
In mid-June 2008, along with my Wired In colleagues Lucie James and Kevin Manley, I visited the North-West of England, where there was a fast-growing Recovery Movement.
I first posted this blog about Kevin Kennedy’s book about his recovery on Christmas Day, 2013. It was taken from an article from the now defunct Addiction Today. Kevin will be 25 years in recovery this October!
On Sunday, I uploaded 
It’s always wonderful to see new initiatives developed by people in recovery. Here is someone who has been doing lots since she began her recovery journey. I am in awe after reading this recent Facebook post from Meghan Perry about the initiatives that she has developed or been involved in over the years since she found recovery.
Professor Peter Gøtzsche is someone I hold in the highest regard. He is a Danish physician, a medical researcher, and co-founder of the Cochrane Foundation, a ‘British international charitable organisation formed to organise medical research findings to facilitate evidence-based choices about health interventions involving health professionals, patients and policy makers.’ (Wikipedia)
I recently drew up a list of topics I wanted to cover in my Revisiting Old Memories series in the future, and then selected a topic using a random number generator. Here is the blog post on that topic, which is based in part on a post I wrote for my ‘the prof speaks out’ Google blogspot on 
The Recovery Stories on this website were written in 2012, ready for our launch in 2013. Some of these Stories were written by the person, whilst others I wrote after interviewing the person (or people) on a number of occasions. In these latter cases, the stories went back and forth across the world, as most involved people lived in the UK and I had moved to Australia.