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... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Elements of WRAP, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Creating a Wellness Toolbox for Weight Issues by Mary Ellen Copeland, Ph.D WRAP can be easily adapted for use by people who have specific issues, or who are dealing with difficult decisions. In WRAP for Life we touch upon how it can be used to help you to lose weight... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
by Marvel Boolman, CRSS [Certified Recovery Support Specialist] I am often encouraged by being a facilitator of the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP). In the six years of facilitating WRAP in a Mental Health Center setting I have seen many different faces of people... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Elements of WRAP, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Giving Meaning and Purpose to Your Pain by Using It to Help Someone by Ken Braiterman “I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew so well.” — Henry David Thoreau If telling your recovery story touches just one... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2015 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Elements of WRAP, Mental Health, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
by Carol Bailey Floyd A few years ago, Otis Redfern experienced some devastating events in his life in a short period of time. In just under a year, he lost his home, his job, his marriage, and his will to live. After a serious, and almost successful, suicide...