There was a time in my life when I actively felt aversion for entire people, for everything about them, and I felt justified in doing so.
Matthew Hahn
October 18, 2024
There was a time in my life when I actively felt aversion for entire people, for everything about them, and I felt justified in doing so.
This guided meditation establishes embodied mindfulness by first using external bodily sensations, then internal bodily sensations, and finally a combination of both.
Have you every heard the phrase, “Dirty hands, clean money”? It comes from the trades and refers to the idea that we can be proud of what we’ve earned so
Join Jeannine Coulter and I as we discuss my addiction and recovery story. From meth monsters to sobriety, nighttime crime sprees to Buddhist meditation, and from Alcoholics Anonymous to Recovery
Two formerly incarcerated people talk about addiction, crime, prison, firefighting, recovery, Buddhism, and service.
If my prison story isn’t in service to something transformative, I am not interested in sharing it. Mine is a path of transformation and of love.
This podcast with Sam Lamott was recorded almost two years ago, just before the pandemic. I’ve done a good number of interviews over the years, but this one was special.
From the BBC Outlook webpage: “Matthew Hahn used to burgle houses in the San Francisco Bay Area to pay for a drug habit. One fateful night in 2005 he stole
While Hahnscratch focuses primarily on my time in prison, Dirty Hands Clean Dharma looks at personal transformation.
My distorted reflection stared back at me between the swirls of scratches and etched graffiti that marred its surface. I hated shaving.
Join Matt Hahn for a conversation with Emma Barnett on BBC 5 Live.
Matt Hahn and Rachael O’Brien discuss addiction, crime, prison, and redemption.
A “lighter-hearted” follow up to the original Sword and Scale Episode 89.
You will learn to hate, he told me. And it would happen without my knowing it.
Being a hockey fan in an out-of-market prison isn’t easy.
I used to dream about being free. Early on, while I was still facing a life sentence and had yet to be sentenced to prison, I dreamt of the miraculous.
Patrick Michael Brady. The Irish Italian stallion from Monte Sereno, California. Our friendship started during the second grade, back before his eye surgery, back when he wore the most ridiculously
Once again, I had the privilege of talking about my time in prison with Jeff Humfeld at Jaws Of Justice Radio, on 90.1 FM KKFI Kansas City. In this interview,
Cages. I’ve been in a lot of them. It comes with the territory. Most people envision the prison cell as the prototypical cage a person must endure while incarcerated. The
My mother peered out the window of the airplane, surveying the California coastline many thousands of feet below her. Commanding her view of the airscape was a single, billowing, plume
I used to be a vegetable smuggler. It’s not how I got to prison, but it’s what I did once I was there. I wasn’t alone. The men with whom