The Recovery Club
Nobody walks it alone.
A place for people in recovery to talk to each other. Not a programme, not a meeting, and not a replacement for either one.
What this club is
This is a room inside Hope MetaVersity where people who are doing this work can say how it is actually going, and hear back from people who understand the question before it has finished being asked.
Nobody teaches here. Nobody is graded, nobody is tested, and nobody leaves with a certificate. What happens here is people telling the truth to each other about a hard thing, which is the oldest and best part of recovery and needs no curriculum at all.
Everyone here is a peer. Nobody here is your counsellor. If you need one, we will always tell you to go and find one.
This is a club, not a class
Nothing here is teaching and nothing here is education. There are no lessons, no tests, no grades, and no certificates. Members share their own experience with each other, and what any member says is that member’s own view — not Hope MetaVersity’s.
What is said in this club is not medical advice. It is not clinical training, not therapy, not counselling, and it is not a substitute for a doctor, a licensed counsellor, or a treatment programme. Taking part here does not qualify anyone to practise, diagnose, treat, counsel, or advise anyone else. Hope MetaVersity is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for any hospital, transplant centre, treatment provider, or twelve-step fellowship.
What staff do here
Hope MetaVersity does not lead these conversations and does not check what members say for accuracy. Staff are here for one thing: to keep the exchange friendly, to hold everyone to the club rules, and to remove anyone who won’t be held to them.
The club rules
The same six in every club at Hope MetaVersity.
1. Share your own experience. Speak for yourself. Don’t tell anyone else what they should do.
2. No advice that belongs to a professional. No medical direction, no dosages, no diagnoses, no telling someone to change or stop a treatment. Point people to their own doctor.
3. What’s said here stays here. Don’t repeat what someone shares, and don’t bring in somebody else’s story without their say-so.
4. No accusations. Don’t name a person, a clinic, a treatment centre, or an organisation to accuse them of something. Take that where it belongs.
5. No selling. Not services, not products, not your own programme. Don’t ask members for money.
6. Be kind or be quiet. Disagree all you want. Contempt is where it stops.
Ask to join
Leave your first name and an email. We will write to you when the Recovery Club next meets. No list, no newsletter, nothing else.