Background: The lack of social and material perspectives in descriptions of recovery processes is almost common in recovery research.

Aim: Consequently, we investigated recovery stories and how people with mental health and/or addiction challenges included social and material aspects in these stories.

Method: We conducted focus group and individual interviews. We investigated how the participants narrated their stories and how they assembled places and people in their recovery stories.

Results: We found that narratives of recovery became assemblages where humans and their environments co-exist and are interdependent.

Conclusion: As such, narratives about recovery are about everyday assemblages of well-being into which stories of insecurity are interwoven, without a start or stop point.