Replanting Lives
Where the skills, tools, resources, and community offer navigation through a difficult landscape when you are affected by someone with a serious brain disease/mental illness. You’ve come to the right place where there are many opportunities to strengthen your resolve in being in a relationship and a family where all members meet their needs.
About
Mara Briere received permission from Nancy Pizzo Boucher to create a program based on her workbook, “Replanting Lives Uprooted by Mental Illness: A Practical Guide for Families.” (click to view the workbook). The result is a comprehensive menu of activities and strategies that strengthen relationships and promote healthier families.
Three Key Modules
Family Strategies
Families are affected whenever a member is diagnosed with a chronic illness, especially brain illness. In addition to the many changes in relationships and managing unrealized expectations, there are alterations in the rituals that families carry out, including holidays, birthdays, vacations, etc. This module is oriented towards re-integrating the loved one into the family.
Self-Care
To take good, loving care of others, we need to take good, loving care of ourselves. This module offers ideas for putting on our oxygen masks first.
This module explores the 7 C’s: Boundaries, Forgiveness, Grief, Guilt, and silent Agreements.
Safety
When someone we know has a brain disease, we recognize barriers to maintaining safety, defusing crises, and promoting brain health practices. This module covers these issues including Anosognosia, Crisis Management, Defensive not Offensive Behavior, Mental Health History Doc, Suicide as a Symptom.
