Creativity as Redemption with Prison Memoirist Mark Olmsted

In this episode, author Mark Olmsted shares his remarkable journey from incarceration to rehabilitation, highlighting the therapeutic power of storytelling throughout his recovery. We explore how unexamined trauma can lead to mood regulation and self-medication in the form of substance abuse and how an outlet for creative expression can free us from self-destructive cycles that limit our growth. In the same spirit, we discuss how the rigid norms  of  prison culture and the politics therein echo those of social conditioning at large, and the irony that both are directly at odds with the manifestation of our greatest potential and capacity. Mark shares what he has learned about the mechanics of redemption, as well as the role creative expression plays in that journey. 

Learn more about Mark Olmsted at

https://www.amazon.com/Ink-Pen-Prison-Mark-Olmsted/dp/0692784144

https://markolmsted.substack.com/

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