About Recovery Calling

Recovery Calling is a phone-based storytelling project from HOPE for New Hampshire Recovery. Anyone touched by addiction and recovery can leave a message — by phone, on this site, or in writing.

Who runs this

Recovery Calling is a project of HOPE for New Hampshire Recovery, a peer-led recovery community based in Manchester, NH. Hope’s main website is recoverynh.org. Hope offers peer support from people with lived experience, along with groups and coaching. Many pathways to recovery are welcome here.

What happens to your voice

After Hope approves a message, it can play on the listen page and on Hope’s social media. Someone going through something similar can hear a voice that’s been there.

Messages don’t post automatically. Someone at Hope listens to every message and reads every transcript before it goes up.

If you write instead of speaking, someone at Hope reads your words out loud on the line. Your story is still there. That recording is reviewed the same way as any other message. While you type, this device may keep a draft for a week in case the page closes. You can discard it. It never leaves this browser unless you send it.

Your number

We don’t store your number, and we don’t keep your IP address. It isn’t attached to your message. For a call, we take only the area code so we can put a pin on the map. No name is attached unless you say one out loud.

The phone company keeps its own records the way it does for any call, so a call can show up on a phone bill. If that matters to you, you can record on the site or write a message instead.

Changed your mind?

Email calling@recoverynh.org with roughly when you called and what it was about. We’ll find it and take it down. You don’t have to explain, and there’s no deadline.