Book details

  • Genre:self-help
  • Sub-genre:Personal Growth / General
  • Language:English
  • Series Title:Foundations of Recovery
  • Series Number:2
  • Pages:80
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317837600

P.E.E.R. (Providing Experience of a Everyday Reality) Workbook

By Geremy Johnson

Overview

You are not starting over. You are re-turning with power, presence, & purpose. P.E.E.R. (Providing Experience of an Everyday Reality) is more than a workbook, it's a roadmap for those navigating reentry, recovery, and the reclamation of self. Rooted in the lived experience of justice-involved individuals and the wisdom of Forensic Peer Support, this guide is a bold invitation to transform your story from survival to strategy. Inside these pages, you'll find: • Powerful reflections, tools, and journaling prompts • Real-talk about systems, stigma, and identity • Practices to build trust, reclaim language, and lead with authenticity • A framework for peer-led healing and systemic advocacy Whether used alone or within a circle of support, this workbook honors your humanity and offers a lantern for the path ahead. You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to reclaim. Welcome back. Welcome home. Let's start a new direction on a path already traveled.
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Description

Partnership Release Foundations of Recovery & P.E.E.R. (Providing Experience of a Everyday Reality) Where Structure Meets Story. Where Healing Meets Humanity. Where Recovery Becomes Reality. A Deeper Understanding of the Partnership This partnership is not simply two programs aligning. It is two languages of transformation learning to speak as one. Foundations of Recovery brings the architecture, the scaffolding that helps a person rebuild their inner world with intention, clarity, and accountability. It is the blueprint that shows how thoughts become choices, choices become patterns, and patterns become life. P.E.E.R. (Providing Experience of a Everyday Reality) brings the breath, the lived truth, the scars, the everyday moments that textbooks never capture. It is the voice that says, "This is what it feels like to change when the world is still watching who you used to be." Together, they form a curriculum that doesn't just teach recovery. It embodies it. This partnership is the merging of principle and pulse, framework and footsteps, theory and testimony. The Deeper Why Recovery is not a chapter. It is a rhythm, a daily negotiation between who you were, who you are, and who you refuse to stop becoming. Most programs teach the "what." Some teach the "how." Very few teach the felt reality of waking up every day and choosing a different version of yourself. This partnership exists because: • People don't heal from information alone. • They heal from connection, context, and truth that sounds like them. • They heal when structure meets story, and story meets strategy. • They heal when the curriculum honors both the science of change and the soul of it. Foundations of Recovery gives Day One Individual a map. P.E.E.R. gives them the terrain. Together, they give them the journey. What This Collaboration Creates A Recovery Experience That Feels Real This unified model delivers: • A curriculum that speaks to the mind and the memory • Lessons that honor trauma without glorifying it • Tools that work in classrooms, community centers, and quiet moments alone • Scenarios that mirror the weight of real decisions • Language that respects the dignity of lived experience • A pathway that feels accessible, human, and possible This is not recovery taught from a distance. It is recovery taught from eye level. Who This Partnership Serves This collaboration is built for people who live in the tension between survival and transformation: • Forensic peers • Returning citizens • Recovery communities • Youth navigating identity and environment • Women rebuilding from silence • Men learning to unlearn the armor • Facilitators who carry the stories of those they serve • Anyone who needs a curriculum that doesn't talk at them, but with them This partnership honors the truth that healing is communal, even when the work is personal. The Vision Forward This partnership marks the beginning of a new era in peer-led education, one where: • Recovery is not reduced to steps, but expanded into story • Lived experience is not an accessory, but a credential • Curriculum is not static, but breathing • Transformation is not a slogan, but a practice • Every participant becomes both a student and a storyteller Foundations of Recovery and P.E.E.R. are not merging brands. They are merging worldviews, creating a learning experience that is as structured as it is soulful, as practical as it is profound. This is recovery that feels like real life. This is education that feels like empowerment. This is partnership that feels like purpose.
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About The Author

"A new direction on a path already traveled." During a particular period of my life, I was involved in illegal activities, residing in unsafe environments as a drug dealer and contributing to the addiction issues faced by families and friends. Now, the scent of cocaine during a Wellness Check elicits empathy from me. Prior to the widespread use of the term 'Peer', I supported individuals dealing with mental health and substance use disorders. However, I was simultaneously providing them with detrimental substances while they attempted to recover. I invested a significant portion of my life acquiring knowledge on the streets without understanding the true purpose of my journey. Unknowingly, I was being prepared, navigating challenges and obstacles that ultimately shaped my professional path. Through personal and shared experiences, I understand the psychological aspects of addiction. Recovery involves finding a solution to managing the disease. Each person's mental health or substance use disorder poses unique challenges, and our approach as Peers and Professionals must reflect this diversity. My community-based work taught me that giving time is invaluable, so every moment counts. Recovery is ongoing, and we must support it at the pace of addiction to succeed. The role of a 'Peer' is evident in our everyday lives as parents, coworkers, neighbors, and siblings. We connect with others through shared experiences and support one another. I demonstrate this by helping peers use their fears and frustrations to aid their recovery. My experiences show that effective leadership can transform depression into hope, anger into dedication, and substance abuse into shared wisdom. "My recovery is a daily victory that I use to educate others, demonstrating that recovery is possible." Geremy Johnson is an author, visionary builder, and justice informed creative whose work stands at the intersection of recovery, reentry, and radical transformation. As the Founder and Creative Lead of Turning 365, Inc., and the Founder of Turning Around LLC, he designs sustainable, trauma informed systems that empower returning citizens, recovery communities, and individuals navigating adversity. His leadership is rooted in lived experience, legal rigor, and a deep commitment to building pathways where healing becomes a lifestyle and transformation becomes an expectation. A prolific writer, Geremy is the author of REVEAL (Realistic, Elegant, Vibrant, Exceptional, Astonishing & Loving), Becoming Dawn, I Built You in Silence, Foundations of Recovery, and eight additional works that explore astronomy, history, love, identity, resilience, and the architecture of becoming. His books blend poetic testimony with practical insight, offering readers both a mirror and a map. Across his catalog, Geremy writes with the conviction that every person carries a story powerful enough to rebuild their world. In the Behavioral Health and Peer Recovery field, Geremy is recognized as a Peer Supervisor, Forensic Peer Trainer, and systems level strategist with more than two decades of experience. Since entering long term recovery in 2001 and beginning his professional peer journey in 2008, he has shaped training spaces across Virginia and beyond. His work champions P.E.E.R. (Providing Experience of an Everyday Reality), a philosophy that grounds recovery in authenticity, shared humanity, and lived truth. Born in New York City and rooted in Virginia since the 1990s, Geremy has become a respected voice in trauma informed education, reentry innovation, and community centered advocacy. He is known for creating accessible learning tools, cinematic messaging, and testimony driven content that resonates with youth, adults, and justice impacted audiences. His creative process is collaborative, iterative, and deeply intentional, always pushing toward clarity, impact, and generational change.
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