A.R.I.S.E. Magazine

E well Hardman brings over 30 years of addiction treatment and counseling experience to his leadership role at Arise. Throughout his career, he has worked with a wide variety of populations struggling with addiction, from people serving time in prison to practicing physicians to pastors needing to address their alcoholism or addiction. Ewell started his career as a Methodist pastor in a rural area in Georgia. He discovered an extension of his calling after finding that other pastors and church members would send people struggling with addictions to him for pastoral care. As a result, he decided to become a certified master addiction counselor. Ewell served as the clinical director at MARR Addiction Treatment Centers where he also helped them start their Recovering Professionals’ Program. He continues to collaborate with and provide monitoring services for the Georgia Physicians Health Program and the National Incarceration Association. Ewell’s calm, therapeutic approach combined with his profound clinical understanding of the addictive process allows him to be a uniquely effective addiction therapist and educator. When reflecting on the work he has done throughout his career, Ewell sees it as one unbroken thread: “Pastor to addicts, teacher, and healer–that’s my whole life right there. It all fits together, and it is all one line in my mind. Anyone is welcome to come along for the journey.” EWELL HARDMAN CO-FOUNDER & SPIRITUAL LIFE DIRECTOR

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