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 [...]
Brianne
Brianne - 2014 Graduate I was sexually abused by a family member from the time I was three years old until [...]
Ashlee
Ashlee - 2014 Graduate My mom had me when she was young and married a man who abused me. She got [...]
Sloane
Sloane - 2014 Graduate I was emotionally and sexually abused by a family member for 11 years. The trauma from my [...]
Sierra
Sierra - 2014 Graduate I always felt as though I had a dark emptiness within me that I could never fill [...]
Marie
Marie - 2014 Graduate I grew up believing my family did not like me and that I was a shameful problem. [...]