by Mary Ellen Copeland | Apr 22, 2025 | Creating & Using Your WRAP, Mental Health, Stressors & Triggers, Wellbeing
More than 35 years ago, around 1987, the extremes of mood I had been experiencing—deep depressions and out-of-control mania—became totally overwhelming. I reached out to various health care providers. I saw one who said, “You are manic depressive like your mother. It...
by Carol Bailey Floyd | Feb 15, 2024 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Mental Health, News, Stressors & Triggers, Trauma, Wellbeing, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
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....
by Trenda Hedges | Sep 28, 2023 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Key Concepts, Mental Health, Trauma, Wellbeing, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
By Trenda Hedges, Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator I believe wholeheartedly in HOPE and NO LIMITS to recovery! I didn’t always believe this. It seemed I was born into limits. I was limited by poverty, by substance use, and by the stigma that came from living in a very...
by Sarah Farmer | Aug 31, 2023 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Mental Health, Trauma, Wellbeing, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
By Sarah Farmer, Certified WRAP Facilitator Sometimes life sucks, no matter how well you live your WRAP or prepare for a potential crisis. A recent accident brought this reality home and left me feeling like I’d lost control of my life. After 35+ years of hard work...
by Sonja Workman | Aug 17, 2023 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Mental Health, Wellbeing, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
By Sonja Workman, Certified WRAP Facilitator Shortly before I was introduced to WRAP, I was in a barren land. It was dry and dusty, which left me feeling parched and empty. Walking in, withered, to my first WRAP Facilitator training session, I sat in my seat expecting...
by Lee Horton and Dennis Horton | Jul 27, 2023 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Justice Involvement, Mental Health, Wellbeing, WRAP Programs & Groups
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...