by WRAP and Recovery Books | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Early Warning Signs, Stressors & Triggers, Trauma, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
My name is ALeeta. I am a 56 year old domestic violence survivor and still am working out a lot of trauma that has come from this horrible crime. Without me writing about that scene I want to concentrate on why I stayed accepted and stayed in domestic violence for... by WRAP and Recovery Books | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Mental Health, Post-Crisis Plan, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Although I was introduced to WRAP in 2000 and wrote my first plan, it wasn’t until I became a WRAP facilitator and really starting using and knowing the importance of having a plan. In 2006 I was hospitalized for what was initially thought to be a stroke because my...
by Sarah Hancock | Jul 7, 2018 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Daily Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Mental Health, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Growing up, I was a big dreamer: college, marriage, family, career. I was enthusiastic, active, and driven. I didn’t let the anxiety I began experiencing when I was roughly nine, the depression I began experiencing when I was 14, or the hypomania which started at age...
by Kristen King | Apr 25, 2018 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Daily Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
May 1 marks the first anniversary of the time my husband and I sold most of our stuff and moved our family cross-country to a town we’d visited only twice into a house we’d bought after only ever seeing it online because we decided to follow our dreams. It was the...
by Alan Marzilli | Jan 31, 2018 | Addictions, Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s classic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a sailor stranded at sea is in a difficult situation. Although he’s dying of thirst, he can’t drink the salt water that surrounds him because...