My OWN Evolution of Restorative Justice
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Podcast interviews with Lisa Jaynes Johnson, PhD, LMFT
Episode #6: How did Lisa use the Recovery principles to own struggles?
Lisa describes how she relied on the support of the 12-step program to manage her response to the challenges in her own life As she struggled with infertility on her way to New Mexico. The fellowship of the 12-step program was there to support her until she found her home in Albuquerque as she practiced the principles in her own life.
Episode # 5: How Did Lisa's Family Help her learn about Restorative Justice?
This episode describes how Lisa's family provided some of the healthy and less healthy coping skills to help her heal from her own trauma and use that understanding to help others and work towards restorative justice.
Episode # 4: How Did Lisa Learn about Restorative Justice?
This episode describes how Lisa and Oprah both found purpose in helping others as a way to move past their own trauma. We focused on our careers to create a healthier world. However, my journey was a deliberate attempt to be different from my mother while still using the same strategies—helping others to avoid confronting my own problems. I wanted to change the family structure from within, to create a healthier foundation, while she used her public platform to effect change on a broader, more public scale. In the end, we both found a way to use our experiences to make a difference, even if our methods were different. Lisa found recovery with the 12 steps and applied this process to how she helped others repair the damage done from relationship trauma.
Episode 3: What lead to your appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show?
Lisa explains why she and her team from the Child Sexual Abuse program were in the audience on The Oprah Winfrey show and how their work aligned with Oprah's message. She described the work they did to help families negotiate the legal system with child sexual abuse cases and what she learned about the failures of the justice system.
Episode 2: What happened on 10/5/1980?
Lisa was working at a gas station when two armed robbers decided the money wasn't enough and took her, too. She describes what happened as she testified in three criminal hearings until the assailants went to prison, throughout she college education. She describes how she took her experience, and ediucation and used to to begin her career helping others recover from trauma. She thought this chapter of her life was over, but the story would for 40 years.
Episode 1:Introduction
This is the First in a series of 13 episodes of interviews with Lisa Johnson, regarding her memoirs "My Relationship with Oprah: My own evolution of retorative justice." In this episode, Lisa describes how after establishing her career, and starting to write her memoirs, she would be called back to testify against the men who assaulted her when she was a freshman in college. Her story of how she organized her life to change the conditions tat caused people to harm other, and was repeatedly called back to examine the miscarriages of justice involved in her own case. 0634 Jill Nicolini Interviewed Lisa Johnson, a Family Therapist in Private Practice, on 8-14-2025