Family recovery is about learning how to take control of your own life through self-care, empowerment and building resilience, which allows all members of the family to live the life they want.

Outside of the challenges individual family members can face with mental health difficulties, each has a right and responsibility to live their own life.  It is natural when someone is unwell for family members to rally around and try to fix things. While sometimes this can be well meaning it can also be unhelpful.

Family recovery can help family members to focus on their own needs and give them the space and opportunity to process their emotions and build their own resilience.  This allows the support they provide to the family member with a mental health difficulty the room to develop and have the opportunity to be their true self.

On-going mental health difficulties can impact all the family in different ways, and we know from evidence that reaching out and getting support from others in a similar situation can help with family recovery.  Family peer support workers offer opportunities for family members to network and meet other families in a similar situation .