Recovery and the Holidays
It's hard to believe the holiday season is nearly upon us. It can be a wonderful time of year. It...
Dignity and the Open Door
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, coined the well known phrase, “When one...
Mental Illness Made Me Do It?
12-step recovery programs have long understood that making amends to those we have harmed, even...
What's Your Recovery Playlist?
Thinking back over my recovery, self-discovery and healing, I am reminded of the music...
Dignity: How Do You Roar?
I gave a keynote titled Dignity: How Do You Roar? at the 36th Annual NYAPRS Conference in...
How a Weighted Blanket Helps
Have you ever been to the dentist and had the experience of having a "lead apron" put on you...
Meditation on the Winter Solstice & Recovery
In my recovery, I've always looked to nature for insight and inspiration about how change and...
Finding Holiday Peace Through Forgiveness
Old hurts can surface during the holiday season. I offer this video reflection as a gift to...
Are You Low Functioning?
The phrase low functioning is pejorative, despite the fact that it is widely used in...
Trauma and the Journey Home to Our Bodies
Those of us who survived child abuse learned to fear and "leave" our bodies. Adopting new health...
CommonGround Guides
CommonGround Guides put recovery tools directly into the hands of the people who need them. Each Guide contains education, workbook style exercises, Personal Medicine Cards, tracking tools and reflection questions.
Work & the Dignity of Risk
Sometimes staff are reluctant to refer folks to Supported Employment and Education Specialists. In this E-Learning course, Pat Deegan will teach you a recovery-oriented framework for managing risk and supporting choice.
Recovery Library
The Hope. The Tools. The inspiration to recover after a diagnosis of mental illness. Recovery Library offers thousands of resources to support recovery and is available for individuals and programs.
Author
Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. The mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
