Hello to all my newfound family reading this. I am the Owner and Founder of Grounded Rebuild. My name is Jerry Kirksey.
Grounded Rebuild is a space that I have built for those of us who have ever had, or possibly still have, the feeling of being lost, damaged, or even broken due to the trials and tribulations we were forced to endure while growing up. It is a safe haven for any and all who have been wounded by life and want to heal, but either don’t know how to, or are unaware that there is a way to do so.
The understanding and required wisdom necessary to begin my own rebuild began when I realized that despite being a grown-up, able to do as I pleased, I was not happy. I couldn’t comprehend my lack of happiness despite having nearly everything I wanted materialistically: woman, a little money, health, my freedom. But then I had the epiphany that just because I was grown, didn’t mean that I was an adult. That told me that something was missing. And that, my family, is what we are here at Grounded Rebuild to find out: “What is the missing component?” Because we cannot build, or rebuild anything without a foundation; and how can we begin working on a foundation when there is clearly an element missing that we have yet to identify?
Well, what I discovered was that the component wasn’t actually missing; it was buried and locked away within me. So the questions I was forced to ask myself was: “What is it? Where is it? How do I find it? And, once I’ve found it, how does it fit into the structure of rebuilding who I am?”
You see, being a grown-up is merely a societal term that everyone eventually ages into, however, being an adult is something that a grown-up has to become. Through the gift of discernment, I finally understood that adulthood required attributes that I did not yet possess at that time.
Grounded Rebuild exists to unveil not just the symptoms of a problem, but to gain clarity as to the roots of what that problem is. It exists to give language to a part of ourselves that we were unaware even had a voice. Grounded Rebuilds intention and purpose is to help all that are willing to put in the work required to journey inside oneself to discover that missing component, annihilate the image you were forced to present to the world and finally rebuild the true you from the ground up.
I am qualified by the authority of my lived experience. I am qualified by the pain that tried but couldn’t break me. Qualified via the years of alcohol and drug abuse that could not keep its vice-like grip on me. I am qualified to build this foundational support for you all because I did it first. I did it to show those still searching that pain isn’t the end; and neither is addiction. We can rebuild.
Grounded Rebuild is for me. Grounded Rebuild is for you. Grounded Rebuild is for us all; because the ground for rebuilding begins within each of us, so long as we are willing to endure ourselves to finally free ourselves from who the world tried to force us to be. Hence, the missing component.