By Tina Miller, Founder and Executive Director of Florida Recovery Schools of Tampa Bay, Inc. September is National Recovery Month, and we’re thrilled to spotlight the incredible work being done with youth in recovery! Victory High School is the first Recovery High School in Tampa Bay...
By Elliott Potter April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is part of a series featuring services offered for child-abuse survivors at the Child Advocacy Center of Onslow County in Jacksonville, N.C. When it comes to helping children through the investigations of physical, sexual and...
By Elliott Potter April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. This is part of a series featuring services offered for child-abuse survivors at the Child Advocacy Center of Onslow County in Jacksonville, N.C. In Onslow County in southeastern North Carolina, the Child Advocacy Center is the hub...
Next month, January 2021—after arguably the roughest year any of us have experienced—comedienne, author and motivational public speaker Tina Levene will celebrate 23 years of recovery. We spoke with her earlier this year about her journey to establish a recovery high school and touched on the importance of...
Whether you meet her in person or by phone or—as is the norm during the global COVID-19 pandemic—by video conference, dance therapist and teacher Sybil Stanonis comes across as confident, passionate, full-of-energy and her zest for life is palpable. But if you’d met her in 2014—or...
By Candi Bryan Any time I get to share my story, I look at it as an opportunity to save another woman’s life. The fact that I am here to tell my story is a miracle. I am a walking miracle. God gave me a second chance...
Tina Levene has made a name for herself as a clean comedienne, five-time author and motivational public speaker. She is polished, confident, energetic, passionate and dynamic—and, at 45, she is 22 years into her recovery journey. “It’ll be 23 years in January 2021, which I...
“The strong Black woman is as much a myth as Superwoman,” Cassandra James-Weathersby, 45, said. It’s not personal strength or resilience or passion that Cassie, as she’s known to friends, takes exception with: It’s the external pressure to appear invincible, unstoppable, indefatigable that keeps women, particularly...
By Elliott Potter My father was a flawed man. As it turns out, so am I. For this pair of Potters, however, the impacts of our imperfections on fatherhood proved a stark contrast. I came out ahead. My son and I share the kind of bond that became...
“Yoga found me,” Tracy Kendrick says. “I was sentenced to prison in 2008—what brought me there was drug addiction and alcoholism.” In her life before prison, she says, “I had no way of knowing anything about yoga.” It just wasn’t part of her world. Tracy’s...