Recovery

In the last step of this wonderful series, Seasoned Grower Jonathan Mullen recounts living with schizophrenia, isolation, bipolar, and depression, and explains how he used Step 12, ‘We carried Grow’s message to others in need’ to help others on his journey.

Seasoned Grower Carina tells us about how her health and wellbeing was impacted by family issues, suicide, and grief, and how she used Step 11; ‘We grew daily closer to maturity’ to get her life back on track.

In this special Pride Edition of our 12-Step series, Becky Harold shares her empowering story of transitioning gender with Síle Tracey and discusses how Grow Mental Health and the LGBTQI+ community helped her along the way.

This video has been designed to help you if you are aged 10 years and above and have a parent with a #mentalillness. It helps to answer common questions about when or how your parent will get better from their mental illness. (Sometimes called ‘#recovery‘). The video is part of 11 others which answer other …

During the Families Together for Mental Health online conference on 15th May 2020 we received many relevant and important questions which our panelists did not have time to respond to on the day. These questions were collected and the panel came together again to review and co-produce some answers to the questions.

On May 15th – the UN’s International Day of Families – the HSE’s Mental Health Engagement and Recovery Team and its community partners hosted an online event to celebrate and promote family recovery. The day included a panel discussion, conversation, sharing of recovery narratives, workshops, meditation and music.The theme throughout was family recovery and peoples’ …

#StillJustMe​ aims to show anyone who might be experiencing mental health difficulties that they are not alone and despite the stigma, there are supports available to them and recovery is always possible.

In this fascinating workshop delivered by Regional Chairperson of Grow Mental Health, Gertrude Howley, we learn the importance of Step 8, ‘We learned to think by reason rather by feelings and imagination.’

Seasoned Grower, Rob Stephen, explores how he overcame shyness and maintained his mental health with exercise in Step 7 of this series on the 12 Steps of Recovery & Growth- ‘We took care and control of our bodies’.