The Copeland Center is presenting two webinars during National Wellness Week

 

On September 18, at 2:00 PM join Eric Larson as he shares his experience using WRAP to create a balance for his mental health and diabetes challenges in the Webinar: WRAP for Diabetes.  Struggling with Diabetes has been a harsh teacher revealing the importance of self-care and its impact on his daily life. However he has used these lessons to reflect upon how the 5 key concepts relate to living with Diabetes. Eric's wellness toolbox grows daily and he will share some simple tools that work to advance his Diabetes care one step at a time. Eric Larson is a certified Advanced Level WRAP Facilitator and Certified Peer Specialist.  

Register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/465001008

 

On September 20, at 2:00 PM, Gina Calhoun, Director of Wellness and Recovery Education at the Copeland Center, will present a Webinar on Smoking Cessation and WRAP.  Gina started smoking at Harrisburg State Hospital as a way to get outside each day.  Smoking soon became a way of life.  It lessened the noise in her head, it alleviated boredom, minimized anxiety and helped her transition from one activity to the next.
After 15 years of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, Gina wanted to become a nonsmoker without the side effect of weight gain.   In this Webinar, Gina will share how she used the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) to take back control of her life from cigarettes and how she discovered that WRAP for smoking cessation only worked when she started working her WRAP.

Register at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/401461744

For Additional Webinars Please go to  http://mentalhealthrecovery.com

 

 

Canada HS WRAP

Mental : A History of the Mad House (PART 4)

Mary Ellen Copeland- Keynote speech Part 1

We spend so much of our time now on line its almost like the art of writing is almost gone. Will i have found a free encrypted site that allows you to keep a journal or record of anything. Share it with no one except if you chose to export or have it printed. It allows you to write 280 charaters every day and some extra charcters per month. It will also send you emails to remind you. But only if you want at your own frequency. I understand all great people keep journals. Recently i heard some famous people writing notes to their younger selves. A very clever way of reflection that we have been doing  in journaling with wrap for sometime. At first it seemed limiting 280 but now i am up to about 512 every other day.  Its free. But the old fashion way of journaling is still available. All its takes is a pen and some blank sheets of paper. Some topics i have put on cards for myself are to write about some one who has inspired me. Write about my favorite birthday. The best holiday that i can remember. To write about falling in love for the first time. We all have memories we would like to recall that are precious to us. i also have memories i want to just to get out and get over. If you have never journaled it may worth exploring. It doesn't have to be all writing. The one thing about this being a habit is now i carry around slips of paper to make a note of things that occur in the day. Its something that i am trying to do again purposefully.  Are you  adding or rediscovering a wellness tool. 280 can be found at http://280d.co/eduvu9
I also have been known to use old envelopes and anything to make my own notes. I trying to write once a week a note or letter to someone outside of the internet to rediscover the lost art for me of letter writing.

Wellness Tools arent they great.