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 on the outside.
In 2015, I found myself in a dark place. I was using drugs so my parents kicked me out and took my children from me. I stayed in a hotel for a few weeks where I woke up to my dead friend. The hotel asked me to leave so I went to Cleveland to stay in someone’s attic where I would hit some real low points. I walked out to never turn back and checked myself into Akron city hospital. I gave 12 step programs several attempts but I still longed to fill a hole in my heart. I relapsed on cocaine several years later just to find myself walking the streets of Youngstown with nowhere to go because I sold everything I owned to support my habit. I found myself in that place of despair once again. Me and my husband spent the following year trying to put our lives back together on our own strength and still found ourselves talking about divorce. By 2023, I had just given birth to my son Zander and was arrested while he was in the NICU. I spent the next five months in a correctional facility where I began to seek God again. He answered my prayers by introducing my husband and I to Family Care Ministries.
Since coming to Family Care Ministries, not only have I rekindled my relationship with my husband but also my relationship with Jesus. Not only that, but I have been reunited with my newborn and other relationships in my life have been restored. God has also shown me his unconditional love and freedom.