Purpose: Guided by narrative theory and by use of a narrative-in-action approach, the aim of this study was to explore how mental health recovery unfolds through individuals' engagement in everyday activities.Method: Data were created through participant observations with four individuals while doing everyday activities, and analysed through a narrative, interpretive approach.Findings: The findings show how mental health recovery involves unique and open-ended processes of narrative meaning-making, which unfold through an interplay between everyday activities, places and persons.Discussion: Based on these findings, we discuss how we may understand and support mental health recovery as collective processes.
Keywords: Ethnography; everyday activities; meaning making; mental health; narrative; participant observation; recovery.