by Sherri Rushman | Oct 20, 2016 | Blog, Children & Teens, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Facilitator Training, Families, For Facilitators, Mental Health, Trauma, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
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,... by Anne Frank | Oct 13, 2016 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
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,... by BJ North | Oct 6, 2016 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Daily Plan, Elements of WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
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... by Judith Cook | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Implementation & Evidence
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... by Carol Bailey Floyd | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog, Creating & Using Your WRAP, Crisis Plan, Daily Plan, Elements of WRAP, Facilitator Training, For Facilitators, Post-Crisis Plan, Stressors & Triggers, Wellness Toolbox, Wellness, Recovery & Lifestyle Topics
I’ve often said that when WRAP is the question, “yes” is the answer. WRAP has taken me across Ohio, around the country, and home again. In the process, I’ve learned that approaching life in a spirit of “yes,” with WRAP as a guide, opens possibilities available...