From Darkness to Light: Stories of Redemption and Resilience
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02/28/24 • 4 min
Welcome to Breakfast of Choices! I’m your Host, Jo Summers. On this podcast, I’m diving into the journey of overcoming trauma, and extreme struggles, and discovering hope through personal narratives. I kick off the conversation today by sharing my own transformative experience. At the age of 19, I went to prison. My life had become a mess starting at about 11 years old.
In everything, the partying, the drugs, the selling the running the much older crowd, and now caught up to me that first early morning in jail, I was staring down at my breakfast. The first thing I heard was someone asking if I wanted my biscuit and jelly, and there I sat thinking about all the choices I had made, that got me to where I was, I knew I'd put myself in this position. It took me a while to learn. But that also meant that only I had the power to change it. I could create my own breakfast of choices.
Reflecting on the decisions that led me down that path, I realized the immense power within myself to enact change and I embarked from there, on a journey of personal growth. Through raw and authentic storytelling, I invite you to explore with me, the theme of overcoming adversity, highlighting the resilience and strength found within the human spirit. Together, we’ll go from Rock Bottom to Rock Solid!
If you would like to tell your story, I sure would love to listen. Please email me at [email protected].
From Rock Bottom to Rock Solid.
We all have them...every single day, we wake up, we have the chance to make new choices.
We have the power to make our own daily, "Breakfast of Choices"
Resources and ways to connect:
Facebook: Jo Summers
Instagram: @Summersjol
Facebook Support: Chance For Change Women’s circle
Website: Breakfastofchoices.com
Urbanedencmty.com (Oklahoma Addiction and Recovery Resources) Treatment, Sober Living, Meetings. Shout out to the founder, of this phenomenal website... Kristy Da Rosa!
National suicide prevention and crisis, hotline number 988
National domestic violence hotline:
800–799–7233
National hotline for substance abuse, and addiction:
844–289–0879
National mental health hotline:
866–903–3787
National child health and child abuse hotline:
800–422-4453 (1.800.4.A.CHILD)
CoDa.org
12. Step recovery program for codependency.
National Gambling Hotline 800-522-4700
Welcome to Breakfast of Choices! I’m your Host, Jo Summers. On this podcast, I’m diving into the journey of overcoming trauma, and extreme struggles, and discovering hope through personal narratives. I kick off the conversation today by sharing my own transformative experience. At the age of 19, I went to prison. My life had become a mess starting at about 11 years old.
In everything, the partying, the drugs, the selling the running the much older crowd, and now caught up to me that first early morning in jail, I was staring down at my breakfast. The first thing I heard was someone asking if I wanted my biscuit and jelly, and there I sat thinking about all the choices I had made, that got me to where I was, I knew I'd put myself in this position. It took me a while to learn. But that also meant that only I had the power to change it. I could create my own breakfast of choices.
Reflecting on the decisions that led me down that path, I realized the immense power within myself to enact change and I embarked from there, on a journey of personal growth. Through raw and authentic storytelling, I invite you to explore with me, the theme of overcoming adversity, highlighting the resilience and strength found within the human spirit. Together, we’ll go from Rock Bottom to Rock Solid!
If you would like to tell your story, I sure would love to listen. Please email me at [email protected].
From Rock Bottom to Rock Solid.
We all have them...every single day, we wake up, we have the chance to make new choices.
We have the power to make our own daily, "Breakfast of Choices"
Resources and ways to connect:
Facebook: Jo Summers
Instagram: @Summersjol
Facebook Support: Chance For Change Women’s circle
Website: Breakfastofchoices.com
Urbanedencmty.com (Oklahoma Addiction and Recovery Resources) Treatment, Sober Living, Meetings. Shout out to the founder, of this phenomenal website... Kristy Da Rosa!
National suicide prevention and crisis, hotline number 988
National domestic violence hotline:
800–799–7233
National hotline for substance abuse, and addiction:
844–289–0879
National mental health hotline:
866–903–3787
National child health and child abuse hotline:
800–422-4453 (1.800.4.A.CHILD)
CoDa.org
12. Step recovery program for codependency.
National Gambling Hotline 800-522-4700
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From Rock Bottom to Rock Solid.
We all have them...every single day, we wake up, we have the chance to make new choices.
We have the power to make our own daily, "Breakfast of Choices"
Resources and ways to connect:
Facebook: Jo Summers
Instagram: @Summersjol
Facebook Support: Chance For Change Women’s circle
Website: Breakfastofchoices.com
Urbanedencmty.com (Oklahoma Addiction and Recovery Resources) Treatment, Sober Living, Meetings. Shout out to the founder, of this phenomenal website... Kristy Da Rosa!
National suicide prevention and crisis, hotline number 988
National domestic violence hotline:
800–799–7233
National hotline for substance abuse, and addiction:
844–289–0879
National mental health hotline:
866–903–3787
National child health and child abuse hotline:
800–422-4453 (1.800.4.A.CHILD)
CoDa.org
12. Step recovery program for codependency.
National Gambling Hotline 800-522-4700
Breakfast of Choices - From Darkness to Light: Stories of Redemption and Resilience
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Welcome to Breakfast of Choices , the weekly podcast that shares life stories of transformation . Each episode holds space for people to tell their true , raw and unedited story of overcoming intense adversity from addiction and incarceration , mental illness , physical and emotional abuse , domestic violence , toxic families , codependency and more . Trauma comes in so many forms . I'm your
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