by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 3, 2012 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Facilitator Training, Families, For Facilitators, Justice Involvement, Mental Health, Trauma, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
Institute at the Alternatives Conference 2012 I was standing behind our exhibit table at the Alternatives 2012 Conference. The room was filled with small groups of people, walking along, chatting with each other, stopping to inquire about an exhibit. In the midst of... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Nov 9, 2011 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Justice Involvement, Mental Health, Post-Crisis Plan, Signs that Things are Breaking Down, Stressors & Triggers, Trauma, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics, WRAP Publications & Events
Mary Ellen Copeland speaks at the Annual Meeting of Vermont Psychiatric Survivors – November 9, 2011, Barre, Vermont We have a lot to celebrate in Vermont right now. The Vermont State Hospital no longer exists. If we play our cards right, this could be a... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Mar 1, 2001 | Blog, Children & Teens, Trauma, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
You are the best expert on yourself You have, by far, more knowledge about yourself than anyone else. No one else lives inside your body or inside your brain. No one else has ever experienced exactly what you have experienced. And no one else can know what you want to... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Oct 3, 2000 | Blog, Children & Teens, Families, Trauma, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
In my studies I have found that many people who experience psychiatric symptoms or have had traumatic things happen to them feel that they have no power or control over their own lives. Control of your life may have been taken over when your symptoms were severe and... by Mary Ellen Copeland | Feb 4, 2000 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Early Warning Signs, Elements of WRAP, Families, Justice Involvement, Key Concepts, Post-Crisis Plan, Signs that Things are Breaking Down, Stressors & Triggers, Trauma, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
by Mary Ellen Copeland, Ph.D., and Shery Mead, M.S.W. This article was original published on this site in February 2000. Recovery has only recently become a word used in relation to the experience of psychiatric symptoms. Those of us who experience psychiatric...
