Real stories of wellness in real life

Safety Agreement: Fertilizer for Growing Recovery
By Lee Horton and Dennis Horton We firmly stand for using the safety agreement in Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) seminars. Allow us to introduce ourselves: Lee Horton and Dennis Horton. We are individuals who spent 28 years in prison for a crime we did not...

My Unique Wellness Tool — Bull’s-Eye!
By Megan Dolbin, Certified WRAP Facilitator, Step By Step I’m Megan, a psychiatric rehabilitation supervisor for Step By Step. Our organization provides community support services to children and adults with intellectual disabilities, and mental health and autism...

Sleep as a Wellness Tool — ZZZ . . .
By Carol Bailey Floyd A good night’s sleep is a vital part of an effective and fulfilling life. Good sleeping habits are powerful wellness tools. Lack of sleep can make us groggy, forgetful, and off-balance. We can find it difficult to function in many aspects of...

Why WRAP Seminars Need a Safety Agreement: A Message from Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. (AHP) and Mary Ellen Copeland
Dr. Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD If you’ve participated in a WRAP seminar, hopefully you’ve helped develop a group safety agreement. The safety agreement is a list of guidelines participants of a WRAP seminar collectively create to ensure each participant can express...

A Power Letter to Yourself
By Carol Floyd Bailey, Certified WRAP Facilitator I recently received an email newsletter from one of my favorite authors, Cheryl Richardson. She wrote about writing love letters to herself that would lift her spirits if she was feeling low. In the letter she used as...
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