Happy 4th birthday Write to Recovery!

3rd July 2018

This summer marks the fourth birthday of SRN’s Write to Recovery project. Since launching in 2014 the project has engaged with thousands of people through a specially designed online story-sharing tool and on the ground group work with organisations across Scotland.


The Write to Recovery website which provides tools and inspiration to help people write and share stories of lived experience now boasts 850 stories and a readership of thousands.

Write to Recovery group work was rolled out across Scotland in 2017 further to a series of successful pilot groups and becoming one of 15 projects to receive money from The Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (the ALLIANCE) Transforming Self Management Fund.



The Write to Recovery project has been a lifeline and a platform for me in terms of expressing myself and exploring my own and other people’s mental health experiences through the written word. Having other people’s experiences to reflect on and compare to my own has really helped to normalise my own feelings about my mental health but also allowed me to attempt to broaden my own interpretations of my own experiences to help others if possible. It is a very worthwhile and synergistic project that allows non-judgmental exploration of often complex mental health issues. I have also personally benefited from performing my work. This has boosted my confidence and self- esteem which has led me into different pursuits – thank you, Lorna Stewart.