by Mara Briere | Mar 31, 2021 | Advocacy, Coaching, Family experience, Family Life Education, Grief, Managing Symptoms, Transitions
An Important Resource, A Shared Experience It has been over a year since the pandemic began impacting our daily lives. We have managed to find ways to connect, and we have developed alternate rituals to celebrate lifespan events like holidays, birthdays, deaths,...
by Mara Briere | Mar 29, 2021 | Coaching, Family experience, Family Life Education
Family Experience Documented A podcast and a sample reel of the dcumentary, “That Way Madness Lies,” produced by Sandra Luckow. This film is about Sandra’s brother, Duane, and his descent into paranoid schizophrenia. “As the documentary...
by Mara Briere | Mar 4, 2021 | Coaching, Community Collaboration, Family experience, Family Life Education, Support
Response to Questions from Julie A. Fast to Mara Briere, MA CFLE What led you to start Grow a Strong Family? In other words, what is your personal experience around mental health disorders? I am a master’s level Certified Family Life Educator with lived experience as...
by Mara Briere | Jan 28, 2021 | Comedy, Community Collaboration, Family experience, Family Life Education, Pandemic, Self Care, Support
Celebrate with us! We are having our 7th Annual Meeting on Feb 21 at 7pm with a comedy show to follow. The meeting will be short, the laughs aplenty, and joined in the virtual universe from far and wide. Let’s connect for an hour of smiles, laughs, and feeling...
by Mara Briere | Jan 3, 2021 | Coaching, Community Collaboration, Family experience, Family Life Education, Mothers, Safety, Self Care
Replanting Lives Uprooted by Mental Illnesses/Brain Disorders. “Replanting Lives” meets weekly on zoom between 10-11:30 am for FREE in order to offer caregivers of individuals with mental illnesses/brain disorders a space to connect, network, share, and acquire...