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    The Friendly Felon's Guide to Life After a Felony: Finding Second Chances After Conviction
    The Friendly Felon's Guide to Life After a Felony: Finding Second Chances After Conviction
    The Friendly Felon's Guide to Life After a Felony: Finding Second Chances After Conviction
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    The Friendly Felon's Guide to Life After a Felony: Finding Second Chances After Conviction

    By Aza Enigma

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    If you've found yourself convicted of a felony offense in the United States, you are not alone. It is generally accepted that at least one in four people have a conviction(s) of some sort on their record and it often puts a hamper on reaching common goals.

    Aza Enigma has provided a helpful guide with this short and easy-to-read book for those individuals that have felony convictions from their past that would like to find a path to freedom in their life. You will find tips for felon friendly jobs, ideas on how to budget on an entry-level income and more!

    From surviving the months of probation and parole that are often sentenced to felons, to building a positive growth network that works for your future, and showcasing the basic options that each state provides for felony relief and rehabilitation - this book offers the necessary tips and hints that will guide you on your way to freedom in a society that shuns the second chance.

    Help reduce your chances of recidivism, and take control of your life with this down to earth guide that shares it all! This is a great reentry resource for anyone struggling to get on track upon release from prison.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAza Enigma
    Release dateJul 21, 2017
    ISBN9781370390786
    The Friendly Felon's Guide to Life After a Felony: Finding Second Chances After Conviction
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    Aza Enigma

    Who am I and Why am I here?I am Aza Enigma, and I'm your friendly neighborhood felon.The mistake I made as a youth- and the consequent label I earned as a result - has never really gone away. Rather than let this change me for the worse, I've done my best to overcome each and every obstacle that I've found in my path. Then I decided to expand my research and share it with everyone that needs some guidance after their own convictions!As of November 2018, I have two eBooks published as well as two workbooks (available on other sites - see www.thefriendlyfelon.com for more on those).As of October 2020, I've released a short collection of poetry and a collection of my spiritual experiences/lifelong haunting. I'm planning on releasing another very special "Guide to" that breaks into a whole different topic too!I also have a few more things in the works - so keep your eyes peeled for releases and posts with updates on what I'm doing. I have a ton of ideas and if you have suggestions - I'm always open to them!More About MeI currently write adult content, both for hire (www.thefriendlyfelon.com for more information) and for a couple of blogs I've started recently. GoodGanjaGoddess and Canna&Kink are the most recent blogs that have been getting attention.In my spare time, I make random as can be videos for YouTube as Randym Essence, sharing some more facets of my strange personality and totally random interests for the public's enjoyment. That is... when there's enough time between homeschooling my mini and hanging out with the family both at home and on random drives to random places because that's what working from home and homeschooling simultaneously allows us to do. I still occasionally volunteer and still pick up trash everywhere I go, even if I've moved on from volunteering at the local state park.Eventually, I'd like to open a halfway house in the MidWest and contribute to the reduction of recidivism in a more direct way where the home can provide resources and in-person, customized assessment and guidance, the profits from these books will help contribute to that dream. Thank you for your support!Find me on Twitter (AzaEnigma), Facebook(TheFriendlyFelon), and Instagram(AzaEnigma) and follow me!Thanks for stopping by, be sure to check out the blog and my social media accounts as listed, and feel free to drop a line anytime!Some early versions of books have exclusive cover art provided by Paulann Egelhoff, for more from this amazing visual artist visit https://www.paulannegelhoff.com/

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      The Friendly Felon's Guide to Life After a Felony - Aza Enigma

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      Guide to Life After a Felony

      By Aza Enigma

      Rev. 2021 Copyright Aza Enigma

      Distributed on Smashwords

      Additional Titles by Aza Enigma

      Letters of Love and War: The Tale of Taylor Edwin

      My Haunted Life: Shadows Behind the Door

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      Introduction

      Your Friendly Felon

      Hey there, nice to meet you, Reader. Since you are reading this particular book, I’m going to assume that you just might be in a rough spot in your life right now. I can say I’ve also been in a tough spot or two myself - don’t feel too bad about it. And know one thing right now - things can get better again. Even though I have had my own experience with a felony conviction, I still can’t say I know exactly how you feel right now. We all have a slightly different experience in the court system or a slightly different situation.

      Personally, what I recall the most from that period of time, is being pretty out of my mind during it all. I mean, my life had just rolled upside down enough for me to finally notice how bad the entire situation was. There is usually a lot going on when in your life when a conviction comes up - it can be a little hectic, to say the least. So, between the stages of having a felony committed to your record, serving time in the system, and all the way to the final release from the system (maybe with a couple of re-sentencings if you’re not great with your probation or parole officer - it happened to me too), there are about a million different emotions and issues that will be brought up for you to face at every stage of your felony charge. A lot of these emotions during a conviction are often based on anger, frustration, or a sense of hopelessness. Not exactly the best building blocks for a new life upon release from prison or release from your sentence. It's definitely an uphill battle.

      We also all have different situations that brought us to this point, and different reasons and different perspectives that guided us on the path we wound up on. Now, just from the surveys that I’ve put out there so far - I’m realizing that there are thousands of separate influences and scenarios that brought any of us to a conviction. This makes everything I’m going to share here with you a bit difficult to apply to all of our situations, but I’m still going to try to help you out. Yes, you.

      An additional and uncomfortable new label may be part of your life, and yes, you might be a felon now, but you’re also still a human and an important human at that. Many of us have families (some that are really angry with us currently, believe me, I know from experience) that might be there for support, and some of us might not have anything left. Bridges burn hot and fast during and even after a felony - it can and often does happen. It does hurt, but I can’t tell you enough how much better the new connections will be once they’ve been built. You do still matter and you can find your freedom again and find a path to success. I’m not saying you’ll be rich, famous, or otherwise, but you should be able to support yourself once again, without heading back to a life of crime and without depending on institutionalization (those cells might have hots and cots, but you can’t tell

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