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🎥 Filming at DDN Magazine (Drink and Drugs News) The National Conference Centre Birmingham with Detox Factor. Come and say hi if you're here too. 💜
🙏Thank you David Clark including me in your Recovery Voices series.
Like so many of us, I guess we never really take the time to stand back, turn around and see how far we've come. Reading some of my story through your words this week has allowed me to do that and I have no idea how I survived 25 years in the wilderness.
I'm so thankful for everybody who supported me over the years, again, all of you didn't give up on me and just wouldn't let me die. 
It's not just the addict that recovers, it's our families too. The untold pain, anguish and utter dismay watching a loved one slowly destroy themselves through addiction is a distilled misery that nobody should ever have to endure.
I can never thank my family enough for never giving up on me either and I'm eternally grateful to have you back in my life!
⛓️💥My recovery definition of Simple. One word sums it up for me. Freedom. Freedom from active addiction, freedom from chemists, from the revolving door of the police station, from hospitals, from counsellors, from prisons, from homelessness, and from despair.⛓️💥
I have a simple primary purpose nowadays which is to stay clean and help others. With my amazing friends in recovery and incredibly talented team at Eternal, I feel we do this on a daily basis.
 Thank you to everybody who has been a part of my recovery journey over the years and to everybody who has been a part of the very unlikely underdog story which is Eternal Media over the last 12 years! 💜🏴💜
- Marcus
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💜💔This is bringing so much up for me, but it's good to remember how bad things were to fend off complacency, which is a killer in recovery! 💔💜
Mx
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💔It knocks the wind out of me reading this. I know it's about me, but it almost feels like another life, a world away from the life I have today and the gratitude I feel for the incredible people that just wouldn't give up on me, and helped to save my life 💜🙏
- Mx
Well and Truly Addicted: Marcus Fair MBE Story, Part 2
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What was my rock bottom? It was every morning! I would lie there when I came around in ‘bed’, wherever that might be, on a mate’s sofa or in a car park, and experience a heart-sinking feeling, a...
🏆We're feeling incredibly proud, humbled and grateful to have been awarded 'Team of the Year' by Andy Dunbobbin - North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner and his great team at OPCC! Thank you for your kind words Amanda Blakeman KPM!
The award paperwork reads 'awarded to the team that has had most impact upon crime, rehabilitation and for excellence in partnership working across North Wales' 🏴
Well done to all the other award winners. You're all utterly inspirational, and we found ourselves in outstanding company with you! 
A huge thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged us to do more over the years!
More thanks to everyone who made us feel so welcome during the evening. I enjoyed meeting lots of new interesting people who I hope will come and see us at the Bunker! 😀
Eternally grateful 🙏
- Marcus, Lucke, Sara, Jo, Jill, Linda, Cora, Rachel, Simon & Peter 💜⛓️💥🏴🏆
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Happy 50th birthday to Adferiad
We visited Adferiad’s soon to be launched new detox unit in Llandudno (formerly known as the Blind Veterans Centre) where they held their 50th birthday celebrations.
We had a tour of the new facilities. Marcus got to lift heavy circles while I got to stuff my face with vegan cake as we got to catch up with old friends, make new ones and admire a stunning VW Type 2 minibus.
We also enjoyed hearing our friend George James’ story of recovery and vice chairman Clive on sax with his band, plus Wrexham’s One Love Choir.
- Lucke
A different way of seeing Liverpool 📸
Today on Recovery In Focus, we got to shoot Liverpool’s sunny side ☀️
It was the first time the group had been exposed to the cultural arts in Liverpool, and the first time I (Lucke) had seen the sun shine in Liverpool 😅
We visited photogenic sites such as Central Library, the Bombed Out Church and the graffiti-full streets in between, and of course we made a stop at The Brink Liverpool for a smoothie 🍓
Huge thank you to Comisiynydd Heddlu a Throsedd Gogledd Cymru / PCC North Wales for funding this Recovery In Focus group with their Pathways to Recovery Fund.
- Team Eternal 💜🧡💜🧡
Thanks for popping into the Bunker to come and see us Josh, Jasmine and Aaron We're a big fan of WeMindTheGap and we are looking forward to getting the wheels on the project with you in the near future hopefully!
Marcus 💜😀Last week, our Director of Operations Joshua Robhes, Community Maker Aaron Jones, and Programme Lead Jasmine Formstone spent time with the brilliant team at Eternal Media at The Bunker in Borras, Wrexham.
It was a privilege and an inspiration to hear their story about how creativity has the power to transform lives and how they use film and photography to support people overcoming addiction.
Young people, including our Gappies, can carry challenges that were never of their own making, and they should never have to carry them alone. Connecting with organisations like Eternal Media, who share our belief in what young people can become, helps us build stronger pathways and better opportunities for every young person we walk alongside.
A huge thank you to Marcus Fair MBE🎖️ and Lucke Gabriel for showing us around the recording studios & editing suites, and for talking to us about how you have used filmmaking, photography, and other creative media to support people through their different challenges.
We’re excited about what comes next, and we look forward to finding ways of working together to support more young people. We always welcome the opportunity to connect with anyone who is willing to walk alongside young people with the love and care they deserve.
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