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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Recovery International Celebrates 80th Year Recovery International—the “granddaddy” of non-profit mental health self-help groups—is celebrating its 80th anniversary with a year-long series of local, regional and national activities. Often imitated, we are the original. Initially founded as The Association of Former Mental Patients and Their Relatives...