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Feeding the ego is an addiction.

Jim S

When you leave that arena, arriving at your top, which every athlete does, and it's over. For example, a professional like *Michael Jordan, who eventually retires, and he’s out of the game. Every athlete, high school athlete,...

Realized I had an egomania problem.

Jim S

You walk in a store they ask you about the games. People know who you are. You go into a store and there's your picture on posters. You can’t get away from it. People are paying for your meals at restaurants. Their bringing t...

Dad put me on his knee, then I never saw him again.

Gary

I recall walking home from football practice at Tyner Junior High School. I would walk behind the school because I didn't want other kids to see me walking home, or not having a ride home. They would get the car with their da...

I was perfect, except for the lies, black eyes, and failed marriage.

Jan

I could tell him things I couldn’t tell my friends. I later learned that’s what women who are abused do. They keep it a secret. Well, everything in my life was a secret anyway.

Devastated by my little league coach.

Ned

Sal got to me and he looked dead at me and said; “That kid’s a cry baby. He quit last year, I don’t want him.”

Stuttered, stumbled, picked last for teams.

Mark Harris

When I was a little boy I was not the most athletic.I was definitely not the one most likely to succeed. I was shy and had a stuttering problem. I was extremely insecure. As a teenager my outlet for identity became sports. I ...

Bipolar led to cursing people uncontrollably.

Matt C

It was just terrible. So I’m taking the medicine and I am correctly diagnosed but I’m still not really feeling any better. I’m not free from this bipolar.

Not Ashamed to be a janitor.

Daniel

I’m cool with being a janitor right now. I don’t know about the rest of my life.

Healed from the secret life that started at age 13 .

Jennifer

"I would take off and stay gone for days."

Marriage saved despite my affairs.

Shannon

"So, here I am three affairs in three months and I was at the lowest place in my life that I had ever been, ever."