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Monthly Archives: February 2009

Michigan Recovery Center for Excellence Adds Recovery Stories

The new Michigan Recovery Center for Excellence website includes lots of resources for adults with mental illness on the path to recovery, including some compelling and inspiring video recovery stories. People active in our recovery transformation process may recognize some of the participants. They include Ike Powell and Larry Fricks of the Appalachian Consulting Group,  [...]

National "realLives" Forum includes a good friend's story: Read about Ernest

Mental Health America’s “realLives” online community of recovery stories that we announced here on Feb 23 includes a story by Ernie Reynolds, one of our good friends and an extraordinary advocate. Here’s the direct link to Ernie’s Story. Congratulations, Ernie, on your latest endeavor!

New Online Community: "realLives"

Mental Health America launched realLives this week, a unique online community where mental health consumers can share their stories of living with mental health conditions. This one-of-a-kind anthology of original writings, artwork and poetry connects people facing similar struggles and helps break the silence that shrouds mental illness in America.
Almost 200 stories have been published [...]

“Laughter is an instant vacation.” 
– Milton Berle

“Burn brightly without burning out.” – Richard Biggs

Pathways to Recovery: Ongoing & Open to Everyone!

Pathways to Recovery is a self-help class which focuses on how you can use your many strengths and resources to set goals and achieve recovery in broad areas of life such as:

having a sense of home
increasing your knowledge and education
deciding what kind of work you may want to do
developing the kind of relationships you want [...]

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." 
– Henry Ford

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
” – Chinese Proverb


If you or someone you know is at immediate risk of seriously harming themselves or someone else, call 911.


 

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