New Venture Seeks to Leverage the Power of Recovery Stories

A mutual fascination with storytelling has reunited two friends in New Hampshire who hope their venture in promoting recovery stories will build a community of healing. Matt Conway and T.J. Murphy started RecoverYdia (a hybrid of "recovery" and "media") as "our response to a suffering world," as Murphy tells Addiction Professional.

Candlelight vigils will honor those lost to drug epidemic, suicide

If it's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness, just imagine what 10,000 candles could do. Two New Hampshire recovery advocates are organizing statewide vigils on Aug. 29 to remember and honor those lost to the state's drug epidemic and to suicide, calling the event 10,000 Candles for New Hampshire.

Healing and connecting after addiction and loss: '10,000 Candles for NH' vigils

MANCHESTER, NH - On Aug. 29 a statewide candlelight vigil is planned at six locations, all beginning at 8 p.m., including Manchester, Nashua, Concord, Derry, Dover and Keene [see below for more information.] Organizers Matt Conway and TJ Murphy have created the 10,000 Candles for New Hampshire event as a way of helping heal a community that has been wounded by addiction and suicide.