About Joe

A Man Who Lived the Cycle — and Chose to Break It

My name is Joe Nehls.
I survived emotional incest, deep childhood trauma, and years of silence.
I later became a sex offender — and the cycle continued.
Until it didn’t.

For more than 15 years, I’ve:

• Worked through recovery, faith, grief, and accountability
• Had hundreds of conversations with other offenders
• Seen the same patterns repeating like a family curse
• Spent my life documenting the cycle so others don’t repeat it
• Built SOAR as a platform for healing, truth, and prevention
• Started the MotherMade project to break generational silence
• Begun producing the documentary The Making and Unmaking of a Sex Offender

My story is not an excuse.
It’s a map.

About SOAR & Our Books

All SOAR books are free.
If you want a copy, send us your email and we’ll send you a download link—no cost, no catch.

You’ll also see our books listed on Amazon. That’s not because this is a business. It’s because Amazon allows us to purchase and ship physical books directly into prisons.

Any money from book sales goes right back into buying more books for incarcerated men who don’t have access to free downloads.

This is a ministry, not a business.
The mission is simple: reduce harm, increase accountability, and bring peace where it’s been missing.

A man at peace harms no one.

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