Real stories of wellness in real life

Updates Ahead: Your Input is Making WRAP Better and Better!
The WRAP community is always growing and changing. At WRAP and Recovery Books, we aim to evolve with the needs of community members. Since Advocates for Human Potential, Inc., (AHP) took on the immense honor of shepherding WRAP forward in July 2016, we've received a...

The Sometimes-Terrifying, Sometimes-Thrilling Nature of Change
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...

Advocating for Respect
Aretha Franklin, known as the Queen of Soul, famously sang, “All I’m asking is for a little respect.” Feeling respected is an important part of wellness, and sometimes it takes a little self-advocacy to get that R-E-S-P-E-C-T. In fact, respect is often the main goal...

WRAP: Taking Care of the Caregiver
As a tool for supporting wellness and self-care, WRAP can help the rising number of people who care for older loved ones. People are living longer, even as rates of chronic disease are rising. More and more, older adults are aging in place, living alone or with family...

Are Your Action Plans Working Together?
If you have a chronic physical condition, your doctor will most likely recommend some form of action plan. For example, physicians recommend that every person who has asthma have an action plan for maintaining healthy respiratory function and every person who has...




