Real stories of wellness in real life
Healing Is Possible!
By Hubert Brooks, Member of Our WRAP Community My name is Hubert Brooks, but I go by Tojo B. I’m a survivor, advocate, and champion of wellness and recovery. In the face of adversity, I found the strength to overcome two daunting diagnoses: stage 3 prostate cancer...
Thinking Outside the Standard Wellness Toolbox?
[Editor's note] What are the things that make YOU feel well, happy, calm, peaceful, joyful, relaxed, and all the other good feelings? You probably have a list of favorite go-to activities, songs, and relaxation techniques for improving your mood and staying well. We...
Sunday Musings Around WRAP
By Heather Cobb, ALF WRAP Facilitator, Leeds, UK Heather wrote in to share some thoughts from her journaling after a recent WRAP seminar. Today is the first Sunday in March and the sun has reappeared. I get up to walk my dog through the fields nearby and my head is...
Leap Time
Mary Jaffe, WRAP Publisher I’ve decided that the calendar is the only place where the extra 24 hours of 2024 will occur on a single day in February. Instead, I’m “gifting” those hours to myself to be distributed throughout the year for my wellness. Rather than a...
I Am Not My Mother
Carol Bailey Floyd, Certified WRAP Facilitator, author of the blog Celebrate Possibilities My mother, Mildred Perry Bailey, had her first psychotic episode when I was 17 years old. She was taken away in an ambulance. I was terrified that I would never see her again....