Shaka Senghor

Like hard is hard.

You know what I'm saying?

And so the way that our minds work, it's not looking at the package that is delivered in.

All our mind is saying, hey, something doesn't feel right.

This isn't right.

And I'm going to react to that, right?

And so you don't even have to compare, but we've all gone through enough in life to where it shapes how we think about our experiences 100%.

So I've done, I've had a couple of therapists since I've been out of prison, and neither of them work for me.

Okay.

Largely because I think they just became so infatuated that I survived solitary confinement.

I kind of became their therapist and I was like, y'all should be paying me for this.

But I will say the self-practice of healing, you know, doing the hard work, being able to, you know, again, I was lucky I was literate, you know, so I was able to read a lot of books about trauma and

undoing trauma, unpacking it, figuring out these tools that I can use, meditation, mindfulness, journaling, being in community with people who were where I wanted to be in my life in terms of how I wanted to feel about myself, people who had a healthy orientation.

I would probably be like the other 70% of people who end up back in prison.

Society is very unforgiving.

Is it 70% of people that get out of prison and go back?

End up back in prison, absolutely.

Really?

Yeah.

So I'm sure I would be counted amongst those people who went back because one, society is not as forgiving as we would like to believe.