Dear The Beat Within Youth, Contributor, and Staff

-Johnny, California Health Care Facility in Stockton, CA

Greetings, I am so grateful to be a part of The Beat Within Family. The first part of this year for me has been about reflection and living potential. Here at California Health Care Facility, we participated in National Crime Victims Rights Week in April.

As a peer facilitator for Victims Awareness on Tuesday nights we teach and learn about Victim’s rights, impact, ripple effect, and needs. We encourage empathy from our participants to muster the inner choice and decision to reduce the risk of reoffending, to be a part of the solution.

I pray you youth take heed and understand the importance of being remorseful and reduce the risk of delinquency. Once you understand the magnitude of victimizing some physically, emotionally, financially, and spiritually, then can you possibly innerly choose to not cause any more harm, no longer a risk to yourself or others.

Cognitive (Conscious) Therapy is the key to solving and correcting a problem. Your mind, voice, and behavior will change and address your delinquency. You will consciously innerly heal, change, manage recovery realistically. 

I know beyond a reason of a doubt that I can’t change the past, but I can consciously change how I react in the here and now. Thinking before I react allows me to not give into negative impulsive urges or actions. This helps me by disempowering my past to rule my judgement or life choice and decisions and be healthy.

In light of falling short, relapses stay the course of reducing delinquency to not prolong being a meaningful person with inner purpose. Living a meaningful life is not mapped out for you in life but now you have inner tools to be about vision manifest. Understand just because you choose to live a meaningful life. Life is still not perfect. We are going to experience hardship but now you’ll have meaningful tools to make positive choices and decisions. The only power your old habit self will have is what you allow to empower that was non-caring, ignorant, and or selfish.

May this impact letter and two pieces titled “Is it about the 5th Amendment?” and “Victims Rights and Needs” reinforce the living potential that lies within you to innerly heal, change, and manage recovery from delinquency.