Desley Casey

Personal Story of the Founder of Recovery Innovations International (Mental Health)

As a person living with mental illness and working in the mental health sector, mental health wellbeing, be this for a person living with mental illness, a carer, service provider or general member of the community has taken me along a path of positive opportunities of wanting to promote, inform and educate people "recovery is definitely possible".

In fact my whole working career in mental health of 15 years has evolved around this core principle.

When I started on my own wellness and recovery journey, I never envisaged that I would own my own home, work in a role I love and enjoy, meet the interesting people I have met, some of whom I am privileged to call my friends; start my own business; educate and train others on mental health issues, including consumers, directors and service providers of mental health services and community members.

The wealth of the friendships, sharing of knowledge, ideas and skills I have been fortunate to gather for my own personal recovery journey to wellness, I believe, is important to pass along to others. Hence establishing Recovery Innovations International (Mental Health) is as much about sharing this wealth as it is about providing access to people to enable them to undertake their own recovery journeys of choice.

Thank you for walking part of my recovery journey with me and I hope your journey in life is as privileged as mine has been to date and will be in the future.