Hope and Resilience in Prison with Jacqueline Hollows

In 2015 Jacqueline Hollows founded Beyond Recovery which brings the understanding of innate health and well-being to incarcerated people. Now, she’s launching a book about her experiences, called Wing of an Angel, so that this understanding can be shared in prisons all over the UK. A social and digital entrepreneur, author, mentor and professional speaker, Jacqueline Hollows has lived experience of trauma and addiction. She founded Beyond Recovery in 2015 and has impacted hundreds of lives. Jacqueline also trains and mentors facilitators and those who wish to have more peace and success in their lives.You can find Jacqueline Hollows at beyond-recovery.co.uk and at JBHollows.co.ukYou can listen above, on your favorite podcast app, or watch on YouTube. Notes, links, resources and a full transcript are below. Show Notes* Seeing first-hand the impact the 3 Principles had on drug users * On starting to work in prisons * Starting one of the first research projects about innate health * On the changes observed in prisoners when they begin to see their innate well-being * The experience of being seen and heard for the first time * How we can do seemingly impossible things, if we take it one step at a timeResources Mentioned in this Episode* Find Jacqueline Hollows’ Kickstarter campaign here * Jack Pransky’s book Somebody Should Have Told Us * Jules Swales, writing and creativity coach * Dicken Bettinger’s websiteTranscript of Interview with Jacqueline HollowsAlexandra: Jacqueline Hollows, welcome to Unbroken.Jacqueline: Thank you. So nice to be here.Alexandra: Nice to see you. Great to have you here. Give us a little bit about your background and how you came across the three principles.Jacqueline: Okay, so I was in IT customer services for many, many years. And a number of things collided as they do. I realized that I didn’t like it. And, but I did like people. So I retrained, I did live coaching, counseling NLP, EFT, anything with a three-letter acronym. I came across a paradigm called the three principles or also known as innate health. And I became very interested in that. I actually didn’t like it personally, actually. I hope it’s okay to say this, but I actually thought it was a cult. I was very, very suspicious of it. But I’d met someone just accidentally, who was in recovery from a heroin addiction for the for the whole of his life. And he’d got three years recovery under his belt when I met him. And he’s one of the most inspiring people I’ve ever met. I just hung out with him, I volunteered on his social enterprise. And I met a lot of other people from that background. And I thought they were amazing. I started to talk to them about this Inside Out nature of life and stuff. And it was having an impact. And it was in the kitchen, I was making a cup of coffee in the kitchen with them. And he used to do home detoxes where a nurse comes in and does the meds. And he would look after people while they’re going through the detox. I would talk to them and then they would get jobs, and they would make up new relationships. And they decided to write books and,