Olivia Joseph is the creator of The Echoes Project, a platform sharing stories of empowerment, struggle, and healing.
Sharen stood in front of me in a pink shirt with pink nails, eating saltines and spooning melted chocolate ice cream. She was slouching confidently—4 foot 8 and 65 years old. “This is my dinner,” she said, shaking the saltines. “The white lab coat syndrome,” she began. “They’re
“Prison is a whole different world,” Charles Says. “I damn near got beat to death in prison, but I’m here. God saw me through it.” He describes prison as a brutal, survivalist environment. “The prison system is a dog-eat-dog world,” he explains. “If someone approaches you, they’
Charles walks free after four years in prison for indecent exposure, but the sentence still shadows his daily life. It wasn’t until after his release from prison that, at age 50, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Before the diagnosis, he was barraged with medications to tame him in
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