Recovery College Online

27/07/2026

International Self-Care Day was the 24th July. It is a good reminder to make sure we look after our physical, mental, and emotional health. But this is important all year round too.

At Recovery College Online, we have around 75 free courses available on our website. Many of these can help you to look after yourself. We have listed some of these courses below.

Recovery the new me

Managing stress.

Five ways to wellbeing.

Animals and wellbeing.

Health and wellbeing for students.

Lifestyle and Recovery Series.

Mindfulness of daily life

Sleep and relaxation.

Meaningful communication.

You need to create a free online account to be able to access most of our courses on the website. We just ask for a username, email address and password. Anyone can access our courses as long as they are over 13. We also have some open courses which you can do without creating an account.

Our courses remember where you get up to. So, you can choose to take a break and return to them at a different time.

Here is a link to our courses - https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/courses/

To learn more about wellbeing related topics generally head over to our website https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/

06/07/2026

Alcohol Awareness Week

The 7th to the 13th July is Alcohol Awareness Week.

RCO has its own course all about drinking, drugs, and the health effects.

The course looks at:
1. Why people drink.

2. The effects of drinking.

3. Advice and guidance for cutting back or quitting if you want to.

You can find the course on our website - https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/courses/drugs-and-alcohol/

You can do the course at your own pace - it saves where you get up to. You even get a certificate at the end of it.

If you would like to find out more about mental health in general or see our other courses, you can visit our website https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/

15/06/2026

The 15th - 21st June is Men’s Health Week. We have over 70 courses if you want to find out more about health and wellbeing including mental health.

They range from our Lifestyle and Recovery Series: Exercise course to Coping with a Mental Health Crisis and lots more

You can go at your own pace as our courses save where you get up to.

If you would like to find out more about health in general or mental health in particular, see https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/
To see our courses go to https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/courses/

18/05/2026

New story on our website

Last week was Mental Health Awareness Week. You might have heard more people talking about mental health and wellbeing last week or places sharing things on social media or holding awareness events. The theme of mental heath awareness week was taking action.

It’s important to look after our mental health all year round not just during Mental Health Awareness week. The new story on our website talks all about this through a person’s experience of OCD and the difference therapy and other groups have had on their life.

The story: https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/stories/mental-health-is-important-all-year-round/

You can find lots of other stories on our website too from people wanting to share their experiences https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/information/stories/

If you would like to find out more about mental health in general, you can visit Recovery College Online at: https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/

15/05/2026

The International Day of Families

Today is the United Nation’s International Day of Families. The theme this year includes promoting work-family balance.

We have two courses that tie in with this topic.
One is Health, Wellbeing and Employment, which includes a section on work-life balance.
The other is Balancing Everyday Activities for Wellbeing. This looks at how to balance what you do you in your life.

To see a list of all our courses go to https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/courses/

If you would like to find out more about mental health in general, you can visit Recovery College Online at: https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/

12/05/2026

New course called ‘Moving Forward After Difficult Times and Building Resilience’ for Adults.

Recovery College Online have launched a new course this Mental Health Awareness Week.

The course is for adults and talks all things resilience including:

• What it is.
• Some of the different models of resilience
• Giving you the opportunity to think about resilience.
• How you can build resilience.
• How building connections can increase your resilience.

The course is free, you can complete it in your own time and it will save where you get up to.

Anyone can do any of our courses and you will get a certificate when you complete it. It is also a great way which you can take action this Mental Health Awareness Week either to help yourself or help you to support someone else.

The course https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/courses/resilience-13-18/

We also have a course for 13-18 year olds https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/courses/resilience-13-18/

11/05/2026

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week:

Mental Health Awareness Week has a theme this year of action.

If you haven't done so already, sign up to Recovery College Online. We are a free way to help you learn more about your mental health and how to look after it.

We have a wide range of free online courses about understanding mental health, building resilience, and developing practical skills to support wellbeing.

Courses are made by people with lived experience of mental health challenges and mental health professionals working together.

The courses can be done by anyone and you get a certificate for completing them!

To access our courses go to https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/courses/ and create a free account - it only takes 2 minutes to do!

11/05/2026

Today we will be at the Drop In Health and Wellbeing Day at Wingate Community Association (TS28 5AA) from 10 -11AM. Pop along to find out more about Recovery College Online and ARCH Recovery College as well as lots of other services. See the below post for more information.

Join us for our Health & Wellbeing Day drop in at Wingate Community Association next Monday 11th May between 10am-11am 📍

Services will be there to signpost you for support, such as Durham Wellbeing Alliance, Dual Diagnosis from County Durham Drug & Alcohol, Stop Smoking Practitioner, ARCH Recovery College along with EDMG's Social Prescribers, a Physician Associate for weight loss support and CRT Horden Hub House who run a weekly Monday club with a chair exercise class 11am-12pm.

Sound good? Simply just drop in between these times!

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07/05/2026

**Check out our new information page on Perinatal Mental Health**

The term 'perinatal mental health' is used to talk about a person’s emotional and mental health during pregnancy and up to a year after.

This page talks about:
• The types of perinatal mental health difficulties.
• The signs of perinatal mental health difficulties.
• The causes of perinatal mental health difficulties.
• What can help.
• How to support someone else.
• Knowing when to seek urgent help.
• The perinatal state of mind.

Some wonderful women have also shared their personal accounts of perinatal mental health - please head to the website to read them.

The page can be accessed here https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/.../perinatal.../

You can see the courses that we have on our website here https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/courses/

What is perinatal mental health? It refers to a person’s emotional and psychological wellbeing during pregnancy and up to roughly one year after. While the perinatal period can be a positive and exciting time, it also brings major physical, hormonal and life changes that can affect mental health....

01/05/2026

Perinatal Mental Health

We have just put a new page live on our website all about perinatal mental health. The term perinatal mental health is used to talk about a person’s emotional and mental health during pregnancy and up to a year after.

This page has lots of personal experience accounts from people who have struggled with their mental health during and after pregnancy.

It talks about:

• The types of perinatal mental health difficulties.
• The signs of perinatal mental health difficulties.
• The causes of perinatal mental health difficulties.
• What can help.
• How to support someone else.
• Knowing when to seek urgent help.
• The perinatal state of mind.

The page can be accessed here https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/topics/perinatal-mental-health/

You can see the courses that we have on our website here https://www.recoverycollegeonline.co.uk/courses/