What Happened When 235 Incarcerated Men Stepped Into The Circle and Humanized Their Trauma Together

Unaddressed childhood trauma changes how we respond to the world and when triggered, we make choices that sometimes have devastating consequences including domestic violence, addiction, murder and prison.

I, too, would have been incarcerated had I not had the privilege and support system I lucked into.

Let's shift the paradigm of how we incarcerate, isolate and dehumanize the most traumatized members of our society. 
Fritzi Horstman

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