by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Elements of WRAP, Wellness Toolbox
by Mary Ellen Copeland, Ph.D When we think of the holidays, we generally think of happy times. At least that is the image that is projected in the media. But for many of us, navigating the holiday season is anything but pleasant. If you are one of those people, you... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Children & Teens, Families, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
by Mary Ellen Copeland, Ph.D There is a hard, dark, very murky lump, that aches a bit in the middle of my chest. It is gray, but not the warm, gray of tree trunks or chick-a-dees. It is a foreboding and sinister gray, one that has the capacity to sap my life energy... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Elements of WRAP, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
I am providing support for a person who is recovering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and who experiences lots of intrusive and horrific flashbacks of the trauma he has experienced. It seems like the flashbacks are trying to keep him from being who he... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog
by Sandra Waller [This article contains language that Mary Ellen does not currently use. She wanted this article to express Sandra’s feelings and not hers.] This is the question that comes to me: How am I supposed to live? To stay alive. To keep on. For some... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog
by Alison Holmes “I thought I’d turned my back on you, Yet here you are again. To torture me and bully me And feed off all my pain. You promised to be done with me And give me time to breathe, I try to put you in my past But you never really leave. I wake...