Category: Testimony
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Bethanie
For the last 12 years I have struggled greatly with mental health issues and drug addiction. After experiencing some trauma in my life. I was willing to do anything to ease the intense emotional pain I felt. I became addicted to heroin and meth. I was diagnosed with bi-polar, borderline personality and anxiety disorders. I was Read more
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Bria
On October 18th, 2020, I watched my Mother, my best friend, take her very last breath. Ever since that day, I became so lost and angry. A couple months after losing her, I lost my boyfriend to ten years in prison. I didn’t think happiness was even possible after that. I began to distance myself Read more
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Destiny
On June 1st, 2023 I was rushed from Columbiana County Jail to the hospital in Boardman, OH where I was 2 cm dilated and in preterm labor from withdrawals. They did surgery, stitched me up and sent me back to jail. My life started out pretty good, but when I was 15 I met my Read more
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Michelle
In May 2023 I found myself standing in the pouring down rain knowing that I had hit my rock bottom once again. I had relapsed for the umpteenth time. My heart was like a jigsaw puzzle but that final piece that you are searching for to complete the picture was missing. That corner piece. I Read more
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Alissa
Growing up I remember always being in church and even getting baptized along side my dad on my moms birthday one year. I’m an only child, so I was very sheltered until I got older and into high school, but after graduation is when I started smoking weed regularly. I had a lot more freedom Read more
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Matt
Being disappointed that my wife called 911 to bring me back from an overdose, to save my life, was the emptiest I’ve ever felt. My addiction controlled my every move, my wife and my kids. It had me do things I never would think of doing. My addiction landed my wife and I homeless and Read more
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Cletis
Throughout my addiction, my daughter had been taken from me. I had simply put my selfishness first. This did not help me by any means, in fact, my life fell faster, and had gotten darker. This affected me in a negative way. As a man and father, I am supposed to protect my family and Read more
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Alexis
I grew up in a great home, had everything I wanted and more but something inside me still longed for fatherly love and acceptance from others. I thought if anyone knew the real me they would never love me so I mastered how to wear a mask and make everything look like it was ok Read more
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Jami
As a child, I was adopted into an abusive family. Mental, physical, and emotional abuse that was way too much for a child to handle alone. On many occasions, I witnessed my sister being abused in every way, and being a tiny guy myself, there wasn’t much I could do to stop what was happening. Read more
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Bob
On November 29th, 2023 I found myself at the Northern Regional Jail. By December 1st, I was in the medical ward being treated for alcohol withdrawal and experiencing hallucinations. Some of my earliest childhood memories are my trips to the refrigerator to get my dad’s beer. I would sip as much as possible on my Read more