by Alan Marzilli | Feb 8, 2018 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Early Warning Signs, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
If you follow American sports, this riddle shouldn’t be very difficult to solve. His team lost the big game. Americans are by no means alone in our fanaticism about sporting events. Whether it’s soccer, skiing, cricket, ice hockey, or table tennis, just about every...
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...
by Alan Marzilli | Jan 25, 2018 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Elements of WRAP, Justice Involvement, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Did you know that WRAP is helping people build new lives after they leave jail or prison? Correctional institutions are increasingly relying on self-help and peer support to help people transition successfully into the community, and WRAP is a perfect match. It’s a...
by Alan Marzilli | Jan 11, 2018 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Elements of WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Veterans, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
As schoolchildren return to classes in the river town of Kearney, Nebraska, their teachers will have new tools to help them grow socially and emotionally. That’s because their teachers attended a professional development day focused on helping children manage trauma,...
by Alan Marzilli | Jan 4, 2018 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Why do we set ourselves up for failure? Part of the problem might be that we’re basing our resolutions on other people’s ideas, and other people’s ideas don’t always work. Your best friend might be able to quit drinking coffee cold turkey, but you might not be. Your...
by Alan Marzilli | Dec 21, 2017 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Signs that Things are Breaking Down, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
For the last few weeks, we’ve looked at ways to maintain wellness through the holiday season. For some, the end of the holiday season brings relief. But many of us will have something new to worry about: paying all those holiday bills. In the rush to create the...