Allegra
Allegra - 2014 Graduate As a child, I was overweight but felt pressure to be thin. I was diagnosed with a [...]
Olivia
Olivia - 2014 Graduate Before Mercy, I was struggling to keep up two lives. During the day, I was a heavily [...]
Madeline
Madeline - 2014 Graduate My childhood was really good until I was in second grade and I started being abused, including [...]
Lauren
Lauren - 2014 Graduate I was raised in a very hostile environment where there was a lot of alcohol abuse and [...]
Kelsey
Kelsey - 2014 Graduate I grew up in a fairly normal home with two parents who loved me very much. I [...]
Heather
Heather - 2014 Graduate From the ages of 5-11, I was sexually abused by someone I should have been able to [...]
Hannah
Hannah - 2014 Graduate I grew up in a wonderful home with amazing Christian parents. I developed anxiety and depression when [...]
Elizabeth
Elizabeth - 2014 Graduate Before I came to Mercy, I was very depressed and consumed with how my body looked. The [...]
Devin
Devin - 2014 Graduate When I was in third grade, I moved to another state and encountered bullying for the first [...]
Brittni
Brittni - 2014 Graduate I don't remember much of my childhood before my parents’ divorce when I was eight. Church was [...]
Andrea
Andrea - 2014 Graduate Growing up, image was always a main focus. I was bullied in grade school, and I fell [...]
Amy
Amy - 2014 Graduate I was raised by loving parents in a Christian home. Our family was in the ministry and [...]