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Guest Post
- Aug 29, 2018
- 2 min
Advice from a mental health coach: making that first phone call and asking for help is the hardest s
This guest post was written by Jeff Brain, executive director of Coach-Mentors. My experience with recovery is that as a connector - someone who has the privilege and responsibility of connecting people who are struggling with the help and resources they need. In most cases, I am hearing from and responding to parents or family members who are scared and feeling hopeless - concerned but unsure what to do to help their family member. It is a humbling and rewarding experience t
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Stephanie McMahon
- Aug 17, 2018
- 7 min
Can you handle the abundance of recovery?
I took this photo today: a humid August afternoon in my backyard garden. I just spent an hour harvesting vegetables, batting at mosquitos, pulling weeds, chasing our free-range chickens from the garden, and dripping sweat. Abundance was a word that came to mind at the same moment of feeling totally overwhelmed. What the photo doesn't show is another 10 pounds of cucumbers in my fridge, a food dehydrator at-the-ready on my counter, a giant canning pot on the stove, and eggplan
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Virgil Stucker
- Jul 23, 2017
- 11 min
Understanding and accessing the continuum of mental health care
Introduction In the summer of 2017, I completed a chapter as the founding Executive Director of CooperRiis Healing Community in Asheville, North Carolina. I have had similar chapters in the healing communities of Gould Farm in Monterey, Massachusetts, Gateway Homes in Richmond, Virginia and Rose Hill Center near Detroit, Michigan. My next chapter is as founder of Virgil Stucker and Associates LLC, where I serve as advisor to families in crisis because of the mental illness of
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