Nicole
Nicole - 2014 Graduate I grew up in a loving but dysfunctional family. My parents worked all the time and my [...]
Mollie
Mollie - 2014 Graduate I grew up in a stable family. My dad was a doctor and my mom was a [...]
Holly
Holly - 2014 Graduate I grew up in a Christian home, and Jesus was always a part of my life. However, [...]
Hallie
Hallie - 2014 Graduate I grew up in an extremely dysfunctional family. My parents divorced when I was young, and my [...]
Brittany
Brittany - 2014 Graduate I was raised in a loving yet dysfunctional Christian home. As an only child, I was homeschooled [...]
Autumn
Autumn - 2014 Graduate I was adopted when I was eight. A year later, one of my family members, who was [...]
Anna
Anna - 2014 Graduate I was adopted and felt unwanted by my biological parents. I was bullied a lot because of [...]
Andreia
Andreia - 2014 Graduate I was adopted in Brazil and brought to the U.S. as a toddler. My family moved around [...]
Alyssa
Alyssa - 2014 Graduate I struggled with binge/purge bulimia for four years before coming to Mercy. My parents fought a lot [...]
Alondra
Alondra - 2014 Graduate I grew up in an unstable environment, surrounded by physical and verbal abuse. My family moved around [...]
Christine
Christine - 2014 Graduate I dealt with a lot of guilt growing up. I walked on egg shells around my family. [...]
Bethany
Bethany - 2014 Graduate I was sexually abused by multiple family members, church members, and those I should have been able [...]