Real stories of wellness in real life
Holding Hope, Changing Lives
I first became aware of Mary Ellen Copeland and WRAP many years ago, when we invited her to speak at a workshop that our national Research and Training Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago was hosting on self-determination for people in mental health...
WRAP Gave Me a Story to Tell!
The tagline on my email says it all: “Be a hope receiver today to be a hope giver tomorrow.” But I didn’t always have hope. Far from it. From the time I was in high school in the early 1970s, all I wanted to do was die. I didn’t believe in suicide because of my faith,...
WRAP Is an Approach to Life
WRAP is about so much more than mental health. Learning that I can take care of myself, rather than expecting doctors to “fix me,” has changed my life as a person with bipolar disorder. Learning that everyone is struggling with something and that WRAP can help them,...
Live Life—Don’t Let Life Live You!
My life before WRAP, while I was learning WRAP, and now as I live WRAP has been amazing. I have traveled the world, met many fascinating people, and learned the gift of living life in wellness and recovery. Many years ago, I felt very hopeless, lost in the grips of...
The Art and the Science of WRAP
I’ve been conducting research on mutual support and self-help groups in mental health before it was accepted as a good idea or even as something you could study. But our research not only put WRAP on the map as an evidence-based practice, it showed that you can...
WRAP Can Help
