RK From Struggle to Purpose: Jelly Roll Announces Plans for a 100-Acre Rehab Center Focused on Mental Health and Recovery.

Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo are always on the move and always have something they are working on. Jelly Roll, of course, stays busy with his music career, and Bunnie is gearing up to release her first book while they also raise kids, manage a farm, and continue to make a positive impact on others.

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During Jelly Roll’s most recent vlog, he brought Big Mike, Mike Majlak, and Nick Nayersina to his Tennessee farm and revealed some big plans for the massive piece of property. Jelly Roll admitted that when he goes out and rides his four-wheeler, there are still so many areas of his property that he’s yet to discover, and he often goes out and gets lost during his rides.

At the beginning of the vlog, Jelly Roll shares with Majlak that there are 100 acres on the other side of a creek that runs through the property that Jelly Roll hopes to develop into a rehabilitation and addiction/mental health treatment center.

“And then on the other side of the creek, I’ll show you when we get there, I’m going to develop like a 100-acre rehabilitation campus, for free. Where like, imagine drug addicts like you and like us, poor kids, like we’re just f***ing down, when life was kicking out a**. And now think about the resources that we have, that could have helped us so much in those moments. Like when I think about Ways2Well and Gary Brecka helping me do all of my bloodwork, I think about what I learned about on-site, I think about organic eating…

Miles and them will do all the programming. You’ll have a traditional 28-day, 12-step style, but then we’ll have intensive programs as well for therapy and mental health…”

Big Mike interjects and says:

“Guest speakers?”

To which Jelly Roll said, of course, there would be guest speakers, but he also hopes to have guests come in for an entire weekend, getting in the mud with those at the rehabilitation center.

“Come on, baby, no, no deeper. Guest weekenders. Come in and spend the weekend with the boys, leave the phone and get in the trenches with the guys.” 

This sounds like an incredible project that I hope we see come to life.

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We know that Jelly Roll’s music moves and heals people in dark places or struggling through life, but to hear that Jelly Roll wants to physically help those out of the dark places is very cool.

Jelly Roll has had his fair share of struggles with mental health and addiction, along with being an at-risk youth, which led him to being in and out of the correctional system for all of his youth and early adulthood. Now, Jelly Roll has truly turned his life around and is a symbol of those hoping for a better life. Once he had his daughter, Jelly Roll cleaned up his act and showed up for his little girl, and we’ve seen an even bigger transformation over the last year and a half, as he’s lost significant weight. Jelly Roll looks so healthy and happy mentally and physically.

Mike Majlak is also the perfect person to share this plan with, as he’s overcome addiction. The New York Times bestseller became an opioid addict after trying his first OxyContin in his junior year of high school:

“I knew it was a drug like anything else, but I had no idea what I was doing, and what this led to is, you know, an eight-year battle with opiate addiction. I slowly, but surely, became addicted to Oxies, watched friends of mine in their high school careers start to turn from, you know, middle-class kids to robbing pharmacies, robbing houses, stealing cars, robbing other dealers, going to jail. I started to lose friends to overdose pretty early on, and by the time I was out of high school, I was a full-blown addict.”

But that was just the start of the struggles that Majlak faced. OxyContin was the gateway for him to get hooked on other harmful substances:

“…we started to get into finding a substitute for that, which ended up being heroin. And for years after that, I sold heroin, was a heroin addict, as well as becoming, in the end of it, a crack addict.”

However, Majlak turned his life around, just like Jelly Roll did, and now the two have bonded over overcoming the odds stacked against them. It was really cool to see Majlak’s reaction to Jelly’s news that he wanted to open a free rehabilitation center, and he was immediately on board.

Jelly Roll will touch so many lives and will continue making a positive impact on the greater Middle Tennessee area when he gets this rehabilitation center up and running. Majlak put it best when reacting to this news:

“Is there anything you can’t do, bro?”