I AM More Than What Happened to Me.
The I AM Project turns pain into published hope through stories of survival and redemption.
Every one of God's children deserves a way out.
The Fish Foundation is built on a single conviction: no one should be left in addiction, exploitation, or silence. We meet people in the middle of life's hardest chapters and offer them a voice, a story, and a path forward.
Our journey began with Life's Interruption : the story of Charles and Elizabeth learning that the very interruption meant to end them became the very ground from which they now serve others.
"We meet people in the middle of life's hardest chapters and offer them a voice, a story, and a path forward."
The unheard, the unseen, the unfinished.
We come alongside people carrying stories the world too often refuses to hear.
Addiction Recovery
Walking alongside those breaking free from the grip of substance use, one honest chapter at a time.
Homelessness
Meeting people where they are and helping them tell the story that leads home.
Trafficking Survivors
Restoring voice, dignity, and agency to those whose stories were stolen from them.
Domestic Violence
Holding space for survivors to name what happened and reclaim the pen.
Re-entry from Incarceration
Building bridges from a closed door to an open future through story and mentorship.
Mental Health Crises
Honoring the courage it takes to speak, and turning that courage into shared hope.
From a first conversation to a life re-authored.
The I AM Podcast
An informal, unhurried conversation. No script, no pressure, just a safe space that becomes an episode of hope.
Going Deeper
Follow-up sessions with a writer to unfold the fuller story, the losses, the turning points, the light.
The Book
A ~150-page collaborative book with their name on the cover. A tangible testimony they can hold and share.
A New Path Forward
Speaking opportunities, mentoring, and ongoing support. The story becomes a calling.
Three streams. One river of restoration.
Life's Interruption
Chuck and Elizabeth's story, where an interruption became an invitation to serve others walking through their own.
The I AM Project
A storytelling ministry that transforms lived experience into published books and lasting testimony.
The I AM Podcast
Conversations that carry each voice further, reaching the one still waiting to know they aren't alone.
Narrative is a form of medicine.
Clinicians call it narrative healing. Scripture calls it testimony. We call it what happens when a person, long silenced, finally hears their own voice in print, and someone else, still in the dark, hears it too.
Representation in recovery saves lives. A story on a page becomes a door for the next reader.
"I spent twenty years believing my story was a warning. The I AM Project helped me see it was a lighthouse."
Listen to stories that carry weight, and hope.
New episodes each week. Unrushed conversations with people who found a way through, and turned back to hold the door open.
There is a place for you in this story.
Give, write, produce, partner, or simply listen. Every act tells someone they are not forgotten.
Donate
Fund the next book, the next episode, the next voice.
Volunteer
Writers, editors, and producers who love the craft and the calling.
Partner
Recovery centers, churches, and organizations walking the same road.
Listen
Share an episode. It might reach the person still in the dark.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11
Our vision is a growing library: shelf after shelf of books, season after season of episodes, each one a hand extended into someone else's darkness. This is only the beginning.
Empower * Grow * Be