If, like Carlos Ricard, your past is riddled with trauma, you may have learned to tough it out and to pretend you have it all together. Meanwhile, you’re hiding the mental and emotional mess inside, and your life is more controlled by fear than anyone knows. That’s a lonely place, and what’s worse, it’s a place where you can’t access your potential for growth and change. Instead, you keep tripping yourself up, leading to failure, heartache, and hitting bottom over and over again.
It’s easy to believe you’re stuck where you are, that you’re doomed to this life. But Ricard’s bracing and inspiring story proves it’s not true.
What if your ticket to freedom were found within the very walls that imprison you? What if hidden within the experiences that plague you lies the cure to save you? Would you risk the chance of dying many more deaths to earn the right to live the life you were meant for?
The Resurrection Plant tells of one man’s mission to see clearly the truth about his troubled past and to reach the source of his self-destructive behaviors. Ricard began life as a homeless immigrant, spent time on the streets gangbanging, and wound up in prison. Though the streets, his schools, his workplaces, and sometimes his own family told him he was worthless, he held to a belief that he deserved better. After dying many deaths, he fought his way from the hood to the woods, from the ghetto to greatness.
Carlos Ricard grew up on the streets of New England and made about every mistake you could before turning his life around and finding his purpose. Now a coach and speaker, he helps others turn their suffering into stones on their path to greatness.
İçerik tablosu
Prologue: Rhode Island Looks Small Until You’re in a
Police Chase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Introduction: Survival Is Not Your Destiny . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
The Streets, the Projects, the Ghetto, the Hood . . . . . . . 1
Teacher Said I Could Wind Up in Jail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
An American Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
An Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
You Can’t Go Home Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
The School of Hard Knocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Gangsta University . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
How to Get Out of Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
The Glass House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Trying to Take Root in Bad Soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Conversation with God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Zig Zag Zig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
What Goes Up-On the Streets-Must Come Down . . 141
Paying It Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Epilogue: Mom and the Birth of My Son . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Bonus Chapter: The Resurrection Plan –
8 Steps Towards C.H.A.N.G.E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
About Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177