Why I started Powerful Days
I grew up in Pasadena. Football taught me discipline, and I carried that lesson from the University of Arizona into a career as a government contractor. For years I knew how to show up and do my job while carrying anger and pain I rarely talked about.
One day I sat alone at my desk and wept. I knew I needed help. I sought counseling, leaned into my faith, and began facing what I’d buried. That experience shaped the work I do as a pastor, speaker, and trainer, and the story I tell in my book, Wounded Soul: Death Lived Inside Me.
Read my interview with VoyageLA
Taking the work into correctional facilities
We spend time with men in correctional facilities including San Quentin and Soledad, women at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), and young people at youth camps. I bring my own experience of facing anger and learning to forgive into those conversations. We give people time to reflect on what they’ve lived through, take responsibility for their choices, and decide how they want to move forward.
Meet the people at the heart of our prison ministry
Two programs shaped by that work
In The Science of Forgiveness, we look at how resentment, guilt, and shame can shape the choices we make today. In The Echo Within™, we look at the beliefs we formed in painful moments and ask whether they still belong in the decisions we make now.
Read my essay on The Echo Within
Why the first shirt says “Purpose Still Calls”
I chose those words because they say what I want people to carry out of our workshops. You can own the harm you’ve done and still have a responsibility to do good with the life ahead of you. That’s what purpose means to me.
Help us keep showing up
Every monthly membership helps cover the costs of our prison ministry, including travel, preparation, and workshop materials. You’ll get a members-only tee and a short update from me about the work you’re helping carry forward.
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— Charles Myles II, Founder