First, I'd like to suggest you give yourself a little pat on the back for having taken the initiative to come to our website and actually listen to this recording. This is a radical act of sanity in my book.

Radical acts of kindness and sanity like this are not remote, but are in our everyday, here-and-now experiences of our own wisdom and self-support—of which you are the agent right now. So, well done.

My name is Charlie May, and I run the adult mental health Turning Point programin North Wales for Sanare. I have a master's degree in clinical social work from Bryn Mawr, and I've been running groups like this for 20 years.

I have working knowledge of many forms of therapy, all of which I bring to my group: Gestalt Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Schema Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and EMDR—the most important so far.

I'd also like to suggest that the fact that you or a loved one might be in need of care right now is not a function of weakness. We often accuse ourselves of stupidity, silliness, craziness, or laziness—and this is just not true.

Instead, I promote the idea that we all have a deep source of strength, wisdom, and kindness, and that there are valid reasons for having lost our connection with it. I really, really enjoy facilitating the process of developing the self-knowledge and self-acceptance we need to restore our connection with our source.

As a beloved teacher of mine once told me, "May you know your true nature and live from the source."

IOP offers the rare opportunity to be met where you are—to get you back on your feet and walking. We use the challenges you bring to Turning Point as trailheads marking the path. And then we walk with you for a while, standing by you when you face them—helping you to see the radical acts of sanity and kindness you can give to yourself in those small packages along the way, and learning experientially what the challenges have to teach.

We're here when and if you're ready.

In the meantime, I wish you good luck and good health.