Jalil King says for the first time, he learned how to process his emotions, and change his thinking, through this group therapy.
CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey sat down with an Austin neighborhood man who says he is proof that it works."At one point I was cool with it - I didn't care if I died at 20," he said."I left in 2016 for an aggravated battery, upgraded for attempted first-degree murder.
He was skeptical at first when he began participating in a therapeutic effort to change his thought patterns and rewire how his brain is working. "I'm like, 'Yeah, I don't know if this is going to work,'" King said,"but then you get started, and you start seeing the groups in here and how they conducted it - how people were sharing and all that - how we start connecting.
King — who spent five years in prison before getting out in 2020 — says for the first time, he learned how to process his emotions, and change his thinking, through this group therapy. And after a year of reinforcing the new neuropathways in his brain, King says he is finally done with the streets.READI Chicago associate director of workforce Marilyn Pitchford says she saw the shift in King.Pitchford knew King could help others who were also struggled with the instinct to pick up a gun.So now, King is a crew leader with READI Chicago — guiding others through the brain science program and workforce placement.
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