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Stories of recovery and healing

Kelli

Charles

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Noelene

Charles

Sal

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Photographs © Nicholas Walton-Healey for the Northern Territory Lived Experience Network, ‘Our Stories of Recovery and Healing’ Project, Darwin, 2022.

Our lived experience advocates have shared their stories of recovery and healing to role model recovery from mental ill-health and addiction. We know how important it is to see possibilities, when hope can feel far away.

By living our recoveries out loud, we want to normalise the experiences of others. We want to start conversations in our community that encourage others to reach out for support.

Local stories of recovery and healing

Project history

During 2022, we commenced the “Stories of Healing and Recovery” project, for the purpose of creating visible role models for recovery from mental ill-health and addiction. Using mostly our own funds supplemented by a small grant, we worked with a professional photographer in October 2022 to collect portraits of some of our advocates. This is the first step in a creative project to share local stories of recovery and healing in print and online.

Rights on Show 2022 - Judges Award

We submitted a collection of portraits of our lived experience advocates to the 2022 Human Rights on Show exhibition and won the Judges Award. Alongside each advocate’s portrait we included our rights, as outlined in the Mental Health Statement of Rights and Responsibilities [7].
Photo portraits by Nicholas Walton-Healy for the NT Lived Experience Networks, 'Our Stories of Recovery and Healing' Project, Darwin 2022.

[7] Mental Health Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (1991) (2012), Australian Government, https://www1.health.gov.au/internet/publications/publishing.nsf/Content/pub-sqps-rights-toc

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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners across the Northern Territory and that sovereignty of Aboriginal lands was never ceded. We pay our respects to the Elders past, present and emerging.