Sophonie
Sophonie - 2012 Graduate I was raised in an extremely dysfunctional family. At the age of five, I had my first [...]
Jordan
Jordan - 2012 Graduate Growing up, my home was very abusive, and I was in constant fear of neglect and abandonment. [...]
Heather
Heather - 2012 Graduate I used to think of my family as “Sunday Christians”--we went to church on Sundays but lived [...]
DeAsia
"Thank you, Mercy, for loving me and every other girl who walks through your doors. You saved my life and set me on the path to freedom."
Claire
Claire - 2012 Graduate At an early age, I started taking dance classes and began to believe that "skinny was pretty." [...]
Amy
Amy - 2012 Graduate I accepted Christ as my Savior when I was 5 years old, and I loved attending church. [...]
Lavonna
Lavonna - 2012 Graduate When I walked through the doors of Mercy during the summer of 2012, I don’t think I [...]
Lauren
Lauren - 2012 Graduate During my childhood, I was surrounded by verbal and emotional abuse. I began cutting in high school [...]
Emily
Emily - 2012 Graduate I grew up in a stable home, but my life spun out of control when I became [...]
Katrina
Katrina - 2012 Graduate I started hating myself at a very early age. When I was 15 years old, I attempted [...]
Brittany
Brittany - 2012 Graduate Before coming to Mercy, I lived in shame. The poor choices of my past haunted me, and [...]
Lauren
Lauren - 2012 Graduate During childhood, I placed huge expectations on myself and struggled with perfectionism. I was a people-pleaser, so [...]