Heather
Heather - 2012 Graduate I used to think of my family as “Sunday Christians”--we went to church on Sundays but lived [...]
Claire
Claire - 2012 Graduate At an early age, I started taking dance classes and began to believe that "skinny was pretty." [...]
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 [...]
Katrina
Katrina - 2012 Graduate I started hating myself at a very early age. When I was 15 years old, I attempted [...]
Christa
Christa - 2012 Graduate I was emotionally abused as a child, which made me shut down. I didn’t show my feelings [...]
April
April - 2012 Graduate As a young child, I was sexually abused, and my home was often chaotic. While those close [...]
Maddison
Maddison - 2012 Graduate Growing up, my mother struggled with anorexia and over-eating, and her insecurities sent me mixed messages about [...]
Krystyn
Krystyn - 2012 Graduate I grew up in a dysfunctional family and my father took his own life after my first [...]
Ciara
Ciara - 2012 Graduate I don’t remember much of my childhood except that it was a very unstable and I was [...]
Ashley
Ashley - 2012 Graduate I grew up in a wonderful Christian home with very loving parents. As a small child, some [...]
Jessi
Jessi - 2012 Graduate Growing up, I lived all over the country, and my life lacked stability. Physical and emotional abuse [...]