He was the kid who nobody thought would succeed. Arrested. High. Angry. Broken. And yet, that same young man would one day walk across a stage and be called “Doctor.”
It sounds improbable. But it’s true.
Colton King’s journey from addiction to achievement is not just a story of overcoming odds. It’s a story of grit, faith, and relentless perseverance in the face of early trauma. Raised in the aftermath of a painful divorce, caught in the emotional chaos of a parent’s gender transition, and dragged through courtrooms and therapy sessions, Colton carried wounds far deeper than anyone around him understood.
By the time he reached his teens, he had already tried acid, was using weed daily, and was selling drugs to classmates. Cocaine and ecstasy followed. His world fell apart, the streets turned into his playground, and school became the setting for his addictions. He was arrested at the age of 18 for several felonies. From that moment on, most people wrote him off.
But Colton didn’t stay down.
After serving his sentence through an intense diversion program, he began to rebuild. Slowly. He started with a pizza job, scraping together enough to pay for drug tests and court-mandated rehab. Then came the gym, his introduction to physical discipline. And then education. Community college turned into chiropractic school, where he embraced hard work and restructured his entire life.
What makes Colton’s transformation powerful is not just the turnaround but the honesty he brings to the pain that came before it. His story wasn’t just about bad decisions. It was about a boy who had his freedom taken from him. A boy whose reality was constantly redefined by the adults around him. A boy who was silenced when he tried to tell the truth about what was happening in his family.
In Call Me Mom: A Child’s Refusal to Bend the Truth, Dr. Christopher King shares this journey in full.
From a drug-addicted teen who saw friends overdose, go to prison, or disappear into homelessness, to a Spartan Ultra athlete and licensed chiropractor, Colton King proves that your past doesn’t define you. Your choices do. And even when the road is long and uncertain, it’s never too late to rewrite your future.
His story reminds us that healing is possible. Change is possible. And that sometimes, the ones the world overlooks are the ones who rise the highest.
Read his book to take a deeper look into his inspiring and transformational journey: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1968296212.
