Overview of Recovery Journey
This self-paced course is designed to help you make sense of your mental health experiences and take gentle, meaningful steps forward. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or simply looking for support, this journey offers practical guidance, reflection tools, and emotional support grounded in recovery principles.
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Chapter 1: Understanding What You’re Facing
Before we talk about tools and plans, we need to name what’s actually happening. This chapter helps you make sense of your experiences—not as a list of symptoms, but as a human response to stress, pain, and change. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or still figuring things out, this is where we start: with honesty, compassion, and the courage to face what’s real.
Before we talk about tools and plans, we need to name what’s actually happening. This chapter helps you make sense of your experiences—not as a list of symptoms, but as a human response to stress, pain, and change. Whether you’re newly diagnosed or still figuring things out, this is where we start: with honesty, compassion, and the courage to face what’s real.
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Chapter 2: Building Your Recovery Plan
Recovery isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about learning what keeps you steady, what throws you off, and how to care for yourself through it all. In this chapter, you’ll begin shaping a personal plan that makes sense for your life. Not a checklist, but a compass—something to guide you when things get hard, and to remind you of your own strength.
You can download and use the Wellness Planning Worksheet to start building your own plan.
Recovery isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about learning what keeps you steady, what throws you off, and how to care for yourself through it all. In this chapter, you’ll begin shaping a personal plan that makes sense for your life. Not a checklist, but a compass—something to guide you when things get hard, and to remind you of your own strength.
You can download and use the Wellness Planning Worksheet to start building your own plan.
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Chapter 3: What to Expect in Recovery
Recovery isn’t a straight line. There will be good days, tough days, and days that feel like starting over. That doesn’t mean you’re failing—it means you’re healing. This chapter explores common ups and downs in recovery, so you can recognise the patterns, be kinder to yourself, and stay connected to the bigger picture, even when things feel messy.
Recovery isn’t a straight line. There will be good days, tough days, and days that feel like starting over. That doesn’t mean you’re failing—it means you’re healing. This chapter explores common ups and downs in recovery, so you can recognise the patterns, be kinder to yourself, and stay connected to the bigger picture, even when things feel messy.
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Chapter 4: Your Care Team and You
You don’t have to do this alone. Recovery is personal, but it’s also relational. This chapter helps you understand who’s on your care team—case managers, doctors, peer workers, family—and how to work with them in a way that feels respectful, honest, and collaborative. You have a say in your care. You always have a voice.
You don’t have to do this alone. Recovery is personal, but it’s also relational. This chapter helps you understand who’s on your care team—case managers, doctors, peer workers, family—and how to work with them in a way that feels respectful, honest, and collaborative. You have a say in your care. You always have a voice.
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Chapter 5: Everyday Self-Care and Monitoring
Recovery isn’t just what happens in therapy sessions—it’s what you do in between. The way you eat, sleep, move, rest, and notice changes in your mood all shape how you stay well. This chapter is about building small, everyday habits that help you feel more balanced—and learning how to notice early signs when things might be shifting.
You can return to your Wellness Planning Worksheet to reflect on your self-care routines and early warning signs.
Recovery isn’t just what happens in therapy sessions—it’s what you do in between. The way you eat, sleep, move, rest, and notice changes in your mood all shape how you stay well. This chapter is about building small, everyday habits that help you feel more balanced—and learning how to notice early signs when things might be shifting.
You can return to your Wellness Planning Worksheet to reflect on your self-care routines and early warning signs.
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Chapter 5.1 : Recognizing Warning Signs and Staying on Track
Sometimes our minds and bodies send quiet signals before things get overwhelming. This chapter helps you learn what your early warning signs might be—like changes in sleep, energy, or thoughts—and how to respond with care, not fear. By paying attention to these signs, you can take small, steady steps to stay on track, before things spiral. You’re not waiting for a crisis—you’re walking alongside yourself with awareness.
Sometimes our minds and bodies send quiet signals before things get overwhelming. This chapter helps you learn what your early warning signs might be—like changes in sleep, energy, or thoughts—and how to respond with care, not fear. By paying attention to these signs, you can take small, steady steps to stay on track, before things spiral. You’re not waiting for a crisis—you’re walking alongside yourself with awareness.
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Chapter 6: Support for Caregivers
When someone you care about is going through a tough time, it’s natural to want to help—but it can also be exhausting, confusing, and lonely. This chapter is for caregivers, family members, and loved ones. You’ll learn how to support someone in recovery without losing yourself in the process. You’ll also find tools to manage boundaries, care for your own wellbeing, and stay connected in ways that are sustainable and kind—for both of you.
When someone you care about is going through a tough time, it’s natural to want to help—but it can also be exhausting, confusing, and lonely. This chapter is for caregivers, family members, and loved ones. You’ll learn how to support someone in recovery without losing yourself in the process. You’ll also find tools to manage boundaries, care for your own wellbeing, and stay connected in ways that are sustainable and kind—for both of you.
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Everyone’s journey is different.
There is no one right path—just the one that fits you.
Whether you’re taking your first step or finding your footing again, this space is here to walk beside you.
This sharing is not about being “fixed.”
It’s about learning, growing, and discovering what helps you stay well in your way.
You are not alone.
And your efforts—no matter how small—are worth celebrating.
Let’s keep going, one step at a time.
