Christian Howes
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And I would say, it's okay to feel those things.
And it's okay to get help.
And I would try to also point that young man towards the hope of...
a positive vision for his life and all the joy and love and connection and purpose that he could tap into.
Cause I think he was missing all of that, all those things at that moment.
Yeah.
I don't know if he would listen if it was just one day, but if I, if I had enough time and if I could, if I could, you know, wrap around them and like hold them back from certain things that maybe it would have changed.
I guess the challenge is, you know,
I mean, I had some therapy when I was in high school.
And so I was already like hip to it.
I was like hip to the idea.
Yeah.
And so it was just always something that I pursued when I was locked up.
At the time, we had access to Pell Grants and we could go to college.
I believe the same thing happened for Shaka.
And so that was a real important thing.
That was like a lifeline for me in prison to be able to take classes from professors that would come in.
And yeah, so I took a lot of psychology classes as well as philosophy.
And then I've just kept it up ever since then.
So, you know, I like to go to therapy.