Instructions for Living a Life
Instructions for living a life Pay attention Be astonished Tell about it -Mary Oliver Happy Friday, Procovery Community! We hope you live a lot of life this weekend!
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Procovery Institute has been very quietly, and for the most part behind the scenes, testing, revising, updating and improving the Procovery program for over twenty years now – you could say we’ve been...
View ArticleThe Wisconsin Days
To rewind a bit, it was the year 1996 and we were living and working in Wisconsin. My (late) husband, Randy Stratt, and I founded an all volunteer 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Health Action...
View ArticleThe Wisconsin Days – Part Two
Shortly after the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal article was published (in which I first used the word Procovery), I was asked to give a keynote speech and lead a workshop on the concept of...
View ArticleThe Wisconsin Days – Part Three
Our personal life was thriving and so was our work through Health Action Network, but while our family loved Wisconsin and the amazing people we’d come to know, we were all a bit homesick. Shortly...
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We were focusing on finding our footing and settling into our new life in San Francisco when, very shortly after the move, I was contacted by the Bureau of Mental Health in WI and was asked if I would...
View ArticleThe Wisconsin Days – Part Five
In order to write the manual on recovery, I decided that what I needed to do was interview people who had healed, often seemingly despite all odds, so I could better understand what they attributed...
View ArticleThe Wisconsin Days – Part Six
After The Power of Procovery was published in 2000, I began receiving requests for a guide to be written about implementing Procovery support groups. The need for a guide like this made perfect sense...
View ArticleThe Los Angeles Days – Part One
After our early days in Wisconsin, we partnered with Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health and University of Southern California, to further test Procovery Circles, and to test cultural...
View ArticleThe Los Angeles Days – Part Two
To be frank, I was astounded, astonished and heartbroken that anyone would be concerned that Procovery might help people to heal. Why wouldn’t this not only be seen as a positive, but also as the...
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