by Mary Ellen Copeland | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Implementation & Evidence, Justice Involvement, Veterans, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
“What protocols do you recommend regarding establishing strong boundaries in Peer Support relationships that maintain proper self-care for yourself?” “What’s the difference between the WRAP and Peers Support Handbook and the old peer book?” These are only some of the... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Elements of WRAP, Justice Involvement, Post-Crisis Plan, Signs that Things are Breaking Down, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Your Wellness Toolbox, the cornerstone of your WRAP, is a list of tools you use to help yourself feel better and to stay well. This article addresses having tools for especially difficult and unexpected situations. I have them in the When Things are Breaking Down...
by WRAP and Recovery Books | Aug 23, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Justice Involvement, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
When I was at my lowest point in life, an angel came into my life and offered me a WRAP class. I had been in jail, arrested for a psychiatric offense after being enrolled in graduate school. I never thought anything like that could happen to me. I had a psychotic... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Jul 15, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Developmental Distinctions, Elements of WRAP, Justice Involvement, Mental Health, Post-Crisis Plan, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Sharing About WRAP… I use WRAP daily to manage the symptoms of my bipolar. I know what I look like when I am well and when I have been triggered. I work hard daily to use my WRAP program as well as medication and therapy, to manage a very difficult form of this... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Jul 10, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Justice Involvement, Trauma, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics, WRAP Programs & Groups
WRAP is successfully being implemented in a variety of ways with people involved in the Criminal Justice System. Mental Health Recovery Court – Kalamzoo, Michigan In 2008, the Kalamazoo 8th District Court of Michigan established a Mental Health Recovery... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Families, Justice Involvement, Post-Crisis Plan, Signs that Things are Breaking Down, Stressors & Triggers
There was a time in my mid 40’s when my depression became so bad that the only way I thought I could feel better was to just die. I suppose it was a way of controlling the uncontrollable when every emotion and every physical pain left me without control and feeling...