In mid-December, when my “seasonal stress” looked a lot like clinical anxiety, I found a task force. Christmas was nearing and I’d been trying–not very successfully–to soothe myself with spiritual reflection. The biblical story would soon tell of the Magi, opening their treasure chests to give gold, frankincense, and myrrh to an infant in a …
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Hello! My name is Daniel and my sobriety date is 9.10.2014. Life in full, active addiction was governed by fear, anxiety, despair, and desperation. Agony, really. It didn’t start this way. In the beginning, oh, it was a thrilling adventure. The trouble is that the fatality of this disease came disguised as relief and fun. …
SharonProgram graduateFree since February 2007 While incarcerated, Sharon participated in Truth Be Told’s Talk to Me Movement and Let’s Get Real programs. Using the improvisational, body-centered practice of authentic movement, Talk to Me Movement invites women to write and embody the story of what they believe put them on a path to prison. Let’s Get …
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AriannaProgram graduateFree since August 2019 Arianna graduated from Truth Be Told’s “healing through storytelling” program called Talk to Me at Bryan Federal Prison Camp. Just last month, she celebrated one year of freedom from incarceration. In that short time, she completed a city health department community reentry network program and received special recognition among her …
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Leslie is a graduate of the Truth be Told program; a 501(c)(3) nonprofit service organization providing transformational tools of community building, communication skills, creativity and self-care for women behind and beyond prison walls. She agreed to be interviewed about her path to prison and life post-incarceration: You’ve said, “We don’t heal from what we don’t …
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I AM WHITE. For that reason alone, I was born to privilege. I’ve been acutely aware of my privilege since my teenage years when my family’s financial situation worsened significantly and I couldn’t claim “privilege” strictly in the material sense. We’d never had a lot of money but now we didn’t have enough to feel …
Last summer, days after my birthday, our family received a call in the middle of the night from my dad’s girlfriend, Pat. He’d died in her bed. Before the call to my mother-his ex-wife, I got a text sent from my dad’s phone written by Pat. It said: “Please Call It’s An Emergency”. I was …
I am-in general-a pretty happy person. I take after my mother-who used to announce every morning over her coffee: “I have a sunny disposition”. This as she took a long drag on the first cigarette of the day. I was like her. And life for me in the 50s and 60s was pretty hunky-dory until …
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