Peer Perspectives is a space for story sharing, dialogue, and insight from across the peer workforce and recovery community.
Here you’ll find blogs, podcasts, interviews, opinion pieces, and real-world reflections from RecoveryPeople and contributors across Texas and beyond. Topics reflect the evolving landscape of peer support and recovery, including workforce development, recovery and reentry, ethical practice, leadership, wellness, public policy, and systems change.
Through the voices of people working to strengthen recovery-oriented communities and systems, Peer Perspectives exists to elevate lived experience, encourage meaningful conversation, and create space for honesty, curiosity, learning, and connection across the field.
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By Lori Mellinger Learning Management Specialist, RecoveryPeople When I first began learning and training in peer support, I thought I understood recovery well. After all, I had my own experiences…
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By Lori Mellinger Learning Management Specialist, RecoveryPeople Back in 2004, Faces & Voices of Recovery commissioned a national survey to better understand how Americans viewed addiction, recovery, stigma and the…
