Real stories of wellness in real life
The Wellness Recovery Action Planning (WRAP) for Youth Project
West Virginia has developed a unique initiative for implementing WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) for children across the state. Conceived and spearheaded by David Sanders, Consumer Affairs Executive Assistant of the West Virginia Mental Health Consumers...
Focus On Recovery-United, Inc. (FOR-U)
Focus On Recovery-United, Inc. (FOR-U) is an Independent Peer Operated/Peer Support Non-Profit Organization staffed entirely by paid and volunteer consumers who have been trained as facilitators of Mary Ellen Copeland's Wellness Recovery Action Plan™ (WRAP). We are...
Sefton Recovery Group Experience and Vision, Merseyside, England
For and on behalf of Sefton Recovery Group Network, Merseyside, England With the support of Piers Allott; from the outset and throughout; National Fellow for Recovery, Care Services Improvement Partnership, England: This piece describes the development of Sefton...
Listening for the Untold Story
The last article I wrote on Listening Differently involved ‘listening from a position of not knowing.’ In this short piece I talked about listening with the intention of curiosity and wonder. In this next piece I’d like to focus on listening for the untold story which...
Feelings Pyramid
One of the Wellness Tools I use is what I call a Feelings Pyramid I have been using them for the past 5 years since the loss of my youngest daughter and found them to be a way of releasing these intense and overwhelming emotions. I use them because when I am in this...




