I am 39 yrs old I enjoy workout and writing.I have a 17 yr old daughter. i have been incarcerated 2 other times. every time i go to prison for drug trafficking. I was a drug addict from the age of 15. i have now been sober for about 7 yrs. earned an associates degree form Connors college. I thought with my sobriety and involvement with prss and sober living community that i wouldn’t find myself locked up again.Im serving 165 months for a drug conspiracy.Im hoping to get it right this time.I am striving to grow as an adult and be productive. I have remained misconduct free through all incarcerations.as all i do is workout and read I want to be successful in the future. I’m planning on writing a children’s book and currently doing the brainstorming for this with my daughtering just graduated as a trained doula with OSTARA. i hope to use these skills teamed with my PRSS training to help families who think they have lil to no options. Hopefully these steps toward making myself more knowledgeable could help me fit in and even help with young women when imp released. I enjoyed speech in college and learned a great deal about communication in my doula training. I can see myself behind a podium talking about my struggles and how I plan to overcome them with healthy boundaries and Edu. i have recently applied to be peer support in my unit. This will help put me with like minded people. growing and learning from one another will allow us to be of service right here in our current community. Aunt grace says” Bloom where you are planted”. this is what I’m trying to do while trying should be starting LCP or life connections program next month this is a class to help me grow spiritually and make me all around better as i will be studying and keeping a strict schedule with community service in this program. I also made contact with a mentor on the outside who runs POETIC JUSTICE. She had agreed to help me start a peer facilitated therapeutic writing class. I have found this helpful in the past and want to share that experience with others while cultivating hope!
With workout i was training to run a 5k and conquered it on 3-12 this brought me great joy as i love to start and finish things. I hope to run 5 miles straight by April.
Books I’ve read lately… I read Earning Freedom and this inspired me a great deal. i started to set small goals i can reach so that I can eventually make it to the ultimate goal of being a successful productive adult!I read Set boundaries find peace and Realized I was experiencing many boundary issues starting with my family spilling over in to life. I learned healthy ways to assert my new boundaries. Mans search for meaning well I read this And I saw that things in life are really about perspective and which one you choose. I also noticed that there can be a great deal of growth that happens during suffering. this occurs only if you are open to learning instead of staying with self pity grow with self awareness. all people experience struggle what they make of it is what is sometimes extraordinary. I believe this is the place heroes and legends are born from.
Th life i plan to live upon release is full of struggle but it’s one I’ve learned to appreciate. I have been building a business plan for a doula business. I want to be able to help women upon release and possibly open a sober living that practices harm reduction and teaches life skills from peers. I want to inspire young mothers before they land in prison der to lack of boundaries in their life or drug addiction. I wanna show them they can meet their basic needs without crime but through determination ,handwork and healthy community connections
