Breaking out of Treatment Court

By SHAWNE WILLIAMS

This story begins with the end of a run of the streets--the start of a new journey. It was the end of the summer of 2008 when I was done with my last run in the streets. I was selling drugs and also using drugs. I heard a voice. Actually, I had heard the voice ever since I was 18 years old. The voice shocked me to my core. It was almost like a dream. My grandparents raised me in the church, but I made a choice. Now Im walking in change. My mother-in-law was sick one day, and she went to the doctor. So she called me on my cell phone to pick her up from the doctors office. This is where my change begins.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Aug 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490742014

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Finding My Way To Treatment Court

Self-Help

The Wake-Up

The Answer

Giving Thanks

Holiday Works

My New Year

Madman – The Dream

Being Drug By Something

The Benches

Groups

The End Of Phase I

The Wedge

Sanction

Responsible, Responsibility

Change Your Old Ways Fork In The Road Y

I.o.p. To O.p.

Faith

Strength

Deliverance

Wisdom

Change Into A New Man

Must Remember

Confession

Devotional: Week 1

Devotional: Week 2

Devotional: Week 3

Devotional: Week 4

Devotional: Week 5

Final Statement

Special Thanks To:

Journal

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I’d like to say thank you to my wife, my best friend Chanel Williams who shares her time with me daily through the ups and downs in my life. The love she has for me is a gift from God and I say thank you from my heart. May God keep you strong and in good health.

Thank you to Cousin Pat, Christiana, Tony and Aunt Bunny who proof read and edited this very book. May God bless you all.

To my Lord Savior King Jesus who controls my life and guides my footsteps; thank you for deliverance.

FINDING MY WAY TO TREATMENT COURT

This story begins with the end of a run of the streets—the start of a new journey. It was the end of the summer of 2008 when I was done with my last run in the streets. I was selling drugs and also using drugs. I heard a voice. Actually, I had heard the voice ever since I was 18 years old. The voice shocked me to my core. It was almost like a dream. My grandparents raised me in the church, but I