BRAINWASHING - A process of systematically, forcibly, and intensively indoctrinating a person to destroy or weaken his beliefs and ideas, so that he becomes willing to accept different or opposite beliefs and ideas.  (The World Book Dictionary)

My daughter, Mallory, had beliefs that she was unworthy of anyone’s love, could not be successful in school, was not a beautiful young woman, did not have anything worth living for, drugs were her friend, and so on and so on!!

We are anticipating PC4 in a few weeks and Mallory is full of life, ready to move on with her life, thankful for the loving people at Horizon who have helped her to see how worthy, successful, and beautiful she is.  If that is brainwashing, which the definition says it is, THEN BRAINWASH HER!!!

Everything her Dad and I tried did not work.  We needed a little BRAINWASHING ourselves!  We are now Keyholders and staffing seminars and loving every minute of it.  We were at the brink of divorce two years ago and now we are connected in such an intimate way, one that was never there before in 30 years of marriage.  WE’VE BEEN BRAINWASHED!!

I firmly believe that our commitment to our program is crucial in Mallory’s commitment to her program.  We have all worked hard to reunite our family.  I would like to see the statistics on the “Anti-school” group to see how many of those kids and parents completed their programs.  When it got tough, how many dropped out of the program and pulled their kids?

It is almost laughable, if it weren’t so sad, that a person would rather put their time and energy into condemning a program they never really gave an effort to work, instead of looking at themselves and their non-working family and giving it a try.

I prayed for something to come into our lives that would help all of us when Mallory started making choices that were endangering her future and her life.  I am thankful I went into this program without researching every blog of thing that a negative parent had to say.  I guess ignorance is bliss.  I only researched what parents, who stuck with the program, had to say.

I will leave you with this, Mallory’s contract, her purpose, and her values:

“I am a beautiful, honest, intelligent, and caring young woman!

My purpose is to let my beauty shine, while teaching other to live in their excellence!

I value family, integrity, communication, love, respect, and sobriety!  BRAINWASHED!!

You Bet!!

KATHY A.

DAUGHTER MALLORY A.

HORIZON ACADEMY