Narratives of Recovery and Place
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It’s what I advise a lot of parents to do: it’s just the hardest thing that you can ever do—but if you want to save their lives it’s what you’ve got to do: it’s tough love.
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Being involved in peer support groups—with people who knew exactly what it was like to work in a setting with access to medications—was the key for me to be able to get solid in my recovery.
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Now I am going to graduate school, which is something I could not have done without my sobriety.
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I always wanted my music to help someone, and now I have that chance.
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Too many lies and too much pride, / But from the truth, even with their masks, they cannot hide.
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I'm writing to let you know that you are not alone.
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As I continue down this path and on my way, / I confidently take life's challenges day by day; / As my future looks brighter and I start to hope, / That anything is possible, and within my scope.
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It's the iridescence that remains behind his eyes, buried somewhere / and the person willing to grab a shovel and dig / he'll be back when he realizes this is his moment to glow
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Movable Featured in Southern Quarterly Journal
21 November 2022Stefan Schöberlein and Kristen Lillvis recently published a feature on creating the Movable site in The Southern Quarterly.
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Movable/New Ohio Review Recovery Writing Contest Winners Announced
13 June 2022The Movable Project, a grassroots digital archive of recovery stories, housed at Marshall University, recently announced the winners of the 2022 Recovery Writing Contest, a partnership with the New Ohio Review, a national literary magazine.
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