The Streets, My Cradle
By:Jennifer Lynn Jackson
Published on 2011-08-09 by CreateSpace
On our journey of recovery we will run into obstacles from time to time.
Some we can easily just go around.
Some we have to ask for guidance from our Higher Power on how to get around.
But we must find a way.
We can not stay stuck, if we do then we become like stagnated water, unable to flow and polluted again.
Here's a poem from the book "THE STREETS, MY CRADLE" pg.
xiii;WHAT DO YOU ACCEPTOne day I was walking down the street.I smelt something & wondered couldthat be me?I took a shower, I knew I had.Could that still be me smelling so bad?Then God said it wasn't my underarms or my feet.
But, all the garbage thathad been dumped in me.Because God cleaned me up, I now smell Ohso good!And I don't accept what I normally would.Author Jennifer L.
Jackson lived in the Bay Area as a young girl.
At age five and twelve she was sexually molested.
Not having been informed enough about appropriate touching, Jennifer kept the horrific experiences of sex abuse to herself.
She realized later how it affected her mentally.
A naive twelve year old, Jennifer fell for the false love and attention from an older guy.
He frequently visited her at a school in Oakland, Ca.
Jennifer recalls their meeting and him blowing her head up and making her feel really special.
They became what she thought was boyfriend and girl friend.
He gained her trust then used very brutal methods, like beating her with a wire clothes hanger to make her submit to him for Prostitution.
She was fortunate enough to escape from the influence of that vicious Pimp.
But, the damage was done.
Not knowing where else to turn to Jennifer ran to the streets for comfort and found just the opposite.
She was introduced to heroin and crystal meth between the ages of twelve and fourteen years old.
She eventually turned to prostituting for herself as a means of survival and to support her drug habit.
A drug habit that lasted for thirty years.
She went from using heroin to crack cocaine when she relocated to Los Angeles, Ca.
Where she would stay sober for six months to a year, work jobs like, Community Organizer, Staffing Coordinator, Job Developer, but having been on drugs for so long she could not face the pain of her past life of so much abuse and would relapse back into her addiction.
Her addiction and involvement in prostitution became worse after her children were taken, leading her to walk the streets of Los Angeles six days to two weeks straight with no desire to sleep but to get money for drugs to numb the pain she was engulfed in.
In the book "The Streets, My Cradle" Author Jennifer L.
Jackson not only shares information about the thirty year nightmare she was in, but when and how she eventually woke up, fought for her life, accepted her responsibilities, got into therapy, went to a sober living home and finally, finally got out of the "Street Life" and off drugs for good!!! On her journey of recovery...Jennifer L.
Jackson graduated from Los Angeles Southwest College as a Chemical Dependency Specialist in Criminal Justice.
She became a Certified Advocate for youths and adults, an Anger Management Facilitator.
Sharing her story at Womens Re-intergration Program, Girls & Gangs, to name a few.
Newspaper interviews; The Los Angeles Sentinel, La Opinion.
On-line podcast; The Dr.
Thema Show, Judith Norman Show, Black Urban Times, Radio Stations 1680 AM and KPFK 97.8 She continues to advocate and educate the Youth and Parents about her experiences growing up on the streets, that affect people from diverse communities world wide.
THE STREETS, MY CRADLE is an amazing story of survival.
Not only her story but also the story of the silent survivor.
All rights to this 102 page memoir belong to the Author Jennifer L.
Jackson.
Copy right 2009.
It is paper back with a gloss, size 5" by 8".
The cover is orange and black.
The inside is on white paper with black print.
There are no illustrations inside the book.
There's a review on the back text and the Author's picture.
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