When legal issues cost you your identity- Go find it again!
When legal issues cost you your identity- Go find it again! What is it that makes you who you are? Is it your position and job title with your company? Your connection to your spouse or kids? Or your home and country club membership? A lot of external things are...
MLK Day: Free at Last
If you’re lucky, you’ll experience one moment in your lifetime when the clamor and clanking of everyday life culminates. Almost poetic in its timing, when you think you can’t listen for another, split second to the excruciating noise around you, it becomes – in an...
Five Powerful Tips To Overcome Legal Challenges
Five Powerful Tips To Overcome Legal Challenges It’s easy to feel positive when things are going your way, but did you feel overwhelmed as soon as your legal challenges cropped up? It can be hard to keep ploughing onwards if you’re facing unexpected challenges, like...
Put Down Those Boxing Gloves…
If you’re on your way to prison or have been in prison, it’s likely that you’ve made some questionable decisions in your life, which you feel cast a shadow over your life. However, be aware that when you’re trying to start a fresh chapter, your biggest critic and...
Whatever You Do, Don’t Bend Down and Pick Up the Soap : Everything You Need to Know About Prison Bathrooms
March 6, 2015 Whatever You Do, Don’t Bend Down and Pick Up the Soap : Everything You Need to Know About Prison Bathrooms Just kidding, you don’t have to worry that you will be the “butt” of that joke in federal prison camp. There are no group showers in camps....
Fitness in Prison
If fitness was not an important part of your life before camp, it’s a good idea to start thinking about getting in shape. Although prior to leaving for prison, working out is probably the last thing you want to do(personally, the only exercise that I was game...
When a Friend Goes to Prison
Whether you always feared that a friend's behaviors or choices might eventually put them in prison, or the fact that they were arrested and are now going to be behind bars came as a surprise, the one thing to remember is that they are your friend....
Dating After Prison: The Dos and the Don’ts
You've probably heard people talk about the "baggage" we all carry in our lives. It might be the baggage that came from a lousy childhood, a bad marriage, an unhealthy friendship, and so on. The simple fact is that everyone you meet is carrying baggage, and as someone...
Maintaining a Relationship While in Prison
Guessing, imagining, wondering...these are words that people on the inside use to describe what it is like when trying to maintain a relationship while they are in prison. Unfortunately, all of these feelings are unavoidable when you cannot be part of your spouse's or...
Femininity in Prison: Is It Possible?
September 1, 2014 Femininity in Prison: Is It Possible? The words femininity and prison don't really go together. After all, femininity is thought of as looking and acting like a "conventional" female. That would mean doing things like wearing pretty or attractive...