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  • 3 weeks later...
Thank You Cynthia. It is nice to hear from you and I hope you are doing well. The holidays are a tough time for lots of people but I will try and get through as best I can. Please spread the word of wellness and recovery, we all can achieve it!!!

Thanks Linda you too. Holidays are going well so far but I still have some shopping tp do tomorrow but have the day off so probably won't be too bad other than the crowds. Wishing you and your family a wonderful Christmas. Keep in touch and keep up the good work and I will too :)

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Linda what a great update and I am so sorry I didn't see it until now? I never got notified of your reply.

It does get frustrating when people only seem to want to complain and not take steps to get better... I think that is why it is so important for people like us to share the message of hope based on our recoveries.

I am not surprised typing helped you as the writing down my thoughts in the TEA forms is exactly what I attribute to my success.

Take care and keep in touch, you are a true inspiration whether you know it or not:D

Hi Cynthia as well

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Linda what a great update and I am so sorry I didn't see it until now? I never got notified of your reply.

It does get frustrating when people only seem to want to complain and not take steps to get better... I think that is why it is so important for people like us to share the message of hope based on our recoveries.

I am not surprised typing helped you as the writing down my thoughts in the TEA forms is exactly what I attribute to my success.

Take care and keep in touch, you are a true inspiration whether you know it or not:D

Hi Cynthia as well

Hi and great points.

Linda please continue to offer your inspirational insights here as well. Together we can help a lot of people, just like others helped us to get where we are today. Hugs!:)

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Thank you for reaching out :)

I did get this notification through my email so thought I would stop in and say Hi.

All is well with me, I still have been hospital free in over a year and that is a wonderful thing for me considering my lengthly and numerous hospital stays.

I am working in a large hospital in Philadelphia as a Psychotherpaist and Certified Peer Specialist in the Psychaitric units. And what is really great is that I am not triggered by anyone or anything and instead I offer my experience and I offer hope to those who are suffering.

I am also on the new recovery steering committee of the hospital with the Chairman of Psychiatry as we forge ahead recovery and wellness within the hospital. Just yesterday I was offered a management postion with a very well know recovery and wellness author and trainer and she wants me to work with her. She is very well known and I am so honored that she has seen something in me that I can bring to recovery. What a very validating feeling.

I also went to training to be a WRAP facililitator. Wellness Recovery Action Plan by Mary Ellen Copeland, this plan is what saved my life and made a difference in my ability to manage my mental health challenges. Please google it.

So now I am teaching it to others and this plan which each of us individualy create helps me understand who I am and how I react to different things. Self awareness is a powerful tool and each and everyone of us have the ability to make the best choices for ourselves, whatever it may be.

My story was so inspirational, powerful and profound that Mary Ellen Copeland will be posting it on her website. Again I am so grateful to be able to take such a terrible time in my life and share it with others so that they can have hope.

I hope everyone here who reads this has the ability to reach out to a peer specialist. It is becoming nationally accepted in the psychaitric field and recovery and wellness goes hand in hand with that.

So after 27 psychiatric hospitalizations in 5 years, I am still on no psychiatric meds, I suffered significantly with massive lung clots and deal with many autoimmunity diseases, I can actually say I am in recovery and with the help of my supporters including Shanrucas on our PTSD online support group, I will live a happy and healthy life. Life is good again....

I wish the best to everyone and wish you all much luck on your own journeys....:)

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Thanks Linda that is so inspiring and I am SO happy for you. After all you have been through it must feel amazing to be where you are right now. I will google that later thanks for sharing.

I don't post all that often anymore but please try and check in occasionally here and I will too. I know your post will inspire a lot more people than I ever could:)

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