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WRAP and Life Challenges
WRAP is a flexible, self-designed wellness tool you can use for any life issue. Here are just a few examples:
- Employment
- Housing
- Relationships
- Parenting
- Physical or mental health issues
- Life transitions
- Projects
- Loss or grief
- Mental health issues
- Life challenges
- Loneliness
- Aging
- Suicidal thinking
- Smoking cessation
The goal of WRAP is to build a toolbox of ideas and strategies that work for you and help you deal with challenges. Through the WRAP process, you can explore what you want in your life and decide how to make it happen. WRAP is both a preventive strategy to stay well and a proactive way to address challenges and obstacles that come up. It can be adapted for anything you want to work on. People around the world have used WRAP for things like raising self-esteem and self-confidence, building a strong support system, improving relationships with family members and friends, making new friends or establishing new wellness supports, becoming more assertive, making life changes, boosting a career or skills, and enhancing their lives.
WRAP helps you think about the details of issues you want to address. It also helps you notice small changes or signs that show things may be getting worse for you. WRAP will teach you to use your action plans to help feel better, get well, stay well, move toward goals that are important to you, and increase your overall quality of life.
Life Challenges Books and Materials
Recent Blog Posts
Thinking Outside the Standard Wellness Toolbox?
[Editor's note] What are the things that make YOU feel well, happy, calm, peaceful, joyful, relaxed, and all the other good feelings? You probably have a list of favorite go-to activities, songs, and relaxation techniques for improving your mood and staying well. We...
Sunday Musings Around WRAP
By Heather Cobb, ALF WRAP Facilitator, Leeds, UK Heather wrote in to share some thoughts from her journaling after a recent WRAP seminar. Today is the first Sunday in March and the sun has reappeared. I get up to walk my dog through the fields nearby and my head is...
I Am Not My Mother
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....
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