Getting well and staying well is the focus of Mary Ellen Copeland - author, educator, and mental health recovery advocate. Mary Ellen’s work is based on the study of the day-to-day coping and wellness strategies of people who have experienced mental health difficulties. It centers on self-help, recovery, and long-term stability. Personally, Mary Ellen has experienced years of mental health difficulties and has achieved long-term wellness and stability using these strategies.

Mary Ellen has been dedicated to bringing recovery to others through her books, including the celebrated WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan),CD's, DVD's, tapes and training programs - resources that, along with skills and strategies, teaches the values and ethics lessential to recovery that are being used in the world-wide mental health transformation movement. Her work has changed the basic tenets of mental health  as she has convinced the world that people with mental health issues have can have hope, control over their lives, develop self-directed wellness plans, and recover, working toward meeting their own life dreams and goals.

Much of her work is focused on the importance of making lists of personal wellness tools and using these tools to write a personal wellness plan (WRAP),  support and peer support, changing negative thoughts to positive, community integration, building self-confidence and self-esteem, relaxation and stress reduction, diet, exercise, focusing, and addressing trauma issues.

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