JOE AND JUDY HERZANEK
Joe has been drug and alcohol free for 31 years and Judy for 25
years.
The founder of Changing Lives Foundation and author of the
recent book Why Don't They Just QUIT?, Joe also spends time
counseling inmates and advising their family members and others in the
community on effective ways to negotiate the often complex "world of
addiction and recovery."
Currently the Chaplain at the Boulder County Jail (Boulder,
Colorado), Joe has spent over 15 years working in jails and prisons as
both a Chaplain and Addictions Counselor. Joe's personal struggles
earlier in life were preparation for working with offenders who also
have addiction problems.
From age 13 to 29, Joe battled his own drug and alcohol
problem-finally receiving treatment. He now has over 30 years of
abstinence from substances. Treatment gave him the information and
structure needed to begin his journey of recovery.
Information was the key that started the
process. Believing that a person must first "know" what to do to make a
change brought him to this next chapter in life.
Joe has three children-one who still lives at home. He and his
wife Judy live in Colorado, enjoy playing with their two cairn terriers
Lewis and Clark, camping, and most of all-hiking above treeline in the
beautiful Rocky Mountains.
