Recovery International Shows Proven Path to Healthy Mind (Newsweek)
Recovery International Shows Proven Path to Healthy Mind (Newsweek) December, 2024 Self-help tools guide people to living a peaceful and productive life. Founded by Chicago neuropsychiatrist Dr. Abraham Low in 1937, Recovery International offers cognitive behavioral training and is one of the best-kept secrets to achieving mental health. Read the interview with Celinda Jungheim, RI […]
A Mental Health Break (podcast)
Recovery International Shows Proven Path to Healthy Mind (Newsweek) February 18, 2023 Angela Sullivan, Director of Special Projects for Recovery International, speaks with Vincent A. Lanci about RI’s teen/young adult program, Power Your Mind: Tools to Build Resilience. Listen HERE
72 Hours: Inside San Diego County’s Mental Health Crisis
72 Hours: Inside San Diego County’s Mental Health Crisis April 16, 2023 For three days last year, reporters followed patients, police, clinicians, dispatchers and those struggling for help to create a minute-by-minute account of an overwhelmed system. Recovery International’s Lisa Garcia is featured in the Wednesday segment of the San Diego Union Tribune article, “72 […]
Eye on America: Dr. Carl Bell Advocating for self help mental-health
Eye on America: Dr. Carl Bell Advocating for self help mental-health July 17, 2008 Short video from Eye on America with Recovery, Inc. and Dr. Carl C. Bell advocating for self help mental health.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOck5y8ywIs
BREAKDOWN: Investigating San Diego County’s Mental Health Care Crisis
BREAKDOWN: Investigating San Diego County’s Mental Health Care Crisis August 19, 2021 In 2019, NBC 7 began investigating how and why the mental health care system in San Diego County was failing people. The investigation started when we learned that librarians at the Central Library in downtown San Diego were doing way more work related to […]
Recovery International: Taming her Anxiety
BREAKDOWN: Investigating San Diego County’s Mental Health Care Crisis July 28, 2021 The first time Judi Bakke went to a Recovery International San Diego meeting, she had no idea what was going on. She also knew that it didn’t matter. After spending years struggling with anxiety and panic attacks, Bakke finally felt at home. What she didn’t […]
Archives Donation to University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Abraham Low Special Collection
Archives Donation to University of Illinois at Chicago Dr. Abraham Low Special Collection July 28, 2021 Eighty years ago, the state-of-the-art treatment for mental illness was electric shock treatment. Cold water immersion, insulin shock and lobotomies were other remedies for those with recurrent “nervous” disorders. The stigma of mental illness was compounded in states like Illinois, […]
Better. Mental. Health. Nature Journal
Better. Mental. Health. Nature Journal July 28, 2021 A new joint project of The Conservation Foundation and Recovery International combines cognitive-behavioral mental health tools with images of nature from northern Illinois parks. Find relief during these stressful times with a walk in the woods, thoughtful and calming tools, and journaling or doodling! Released in time […]
New Anti-Stress Program Serves Youth
New Anti-Stress Program Serves Youth November 20, 2020 Power Your Mind: Tools to Build Resilience, a new workbook that uses graphic novel panels to illustrate stressful situations and healthy ways of coping, has been released by Recovery International (RI) to help children, teens, and emerging adults deal with feelings of anxiety, anger, or depression. “Being a […]
Harmony Quotes
Harmony Quotes September 2, 2020 Harmony Women’s Recovery Program, San Diego (December, 2016) Harmony serves single and parenting women who have substance use disorders. I’m grateful to Recovery International for: It has helped me with my anger by not wanting to explode. Spotting helps me calm down. I like how RI’s main focus is on […]