Bobbi Jo Reed founded Healing House in Kansas City s historic northeast.
Brent and Donna Jones film Bobbi Jo: Under the Influence will stream on Amazon Prime and other services beginning Feb. 16.
By the time Bobbi Jo Reed dropped out of high school at 16, she’d already been an alcoholic for four years, broken her back in a driving accident involving alcohol, and gotten an abortion following a rape.
Her parents, a police officer and homemaker in Kansas City, Kansas, had lost control of their daughter, and she decided to strike out on her own. It wasn’t until she was 34 and had gone through much worse that she understood she had to change her life.