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Discovering Myself, a Journey of Rediscovery

In this chapter, the author describes his own journey of recovery from a potentially lethal combination of mental health issues and drug misuse. Now working as a peer support expert in the Recovery College movement, he draws out the many factors involved in his own recovery and how these inform his current role. Key to these are the values of ‘hope, control and opportunity’ by which the culture of the recovery movement is characterized. It is through these that as Waldo concludes, they ‘challenge stigma and genuinely recognize the strengths and contribution that everyone can make’.