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My control of women stemmed from something deeper.

Brandon

It became a vicious cycle of doing cocaine to stay up all day sot I could work and then doing heroin to sleep late at night.

Prostituted myself for drugs.

Carrie

Carrie prostituted herself for drugs. As a registered nurse, educated and articulate, she never expected to go so low.

Behind the homosexuality was a person.

Danny W

"By the time I was in puberty I had one foot in the homosexual world, one in the heterosexual world, and I didn’t know how I got there."

An abused boy must prove his sexual manhood.

Joe R.

I had gotten so far down I was eating out of a garbage can. A pastor came to the campsite where I was living and said, ‘Would you like to go to church today?’ I said, “Well, not particularly, not really.” When he said, “We're...

I can't really remember the traumatic event.

Amanda

"My dad, my mom, me, and my baby sister would all sleep on a mattress in the truck bed."

Mom was very angry, very malicious.

Oscar

“You’re going to end up like your father, a bum on the street, a loser, an alcoholic.” As a kid, growing up hearing those things hurt me. I thought, “Man, after everything I do for you, this is how you love me.”

Something sinister was behind me always cutting myself.

Heather

There was a different atmosphere around me. The darkness and the evil was gone. I had love in me for the first time.

Five divorces by age thirty.

Jean

By the time I was thirty I had experienced five failed marriages. I felt like I could do nothing right;

He loved me through the sexual abuse—then suddenly died.

Kim

One day he brought a friend with him to also have sex with me. I then realized he didn’t love me. He just thought he could use me and get sex from me.

I allowed the abuse because I did not know God's love.

Angie

 "I said to myself, “Okay God if I die tonight, I’m going to die obeying you.”