Our Stories

“It taught me to be numb, it taught me to be angry and it taught me to be aggressive. So those were the skills I used later in life.”

“When I shared my story with my kids, they finally understood why they were raised the way they were raised. I have never shared my story with anyone else.”

“When I was 5 years old, the nuns told me my mother and father didn’t love me and that’s why they had to look after me. They were wrong. It was all lies.”

“I’m going to be 72 this year and I just want to be free of this pain. I don’t want to live the last years of my life with this pain inside me.”

“When I was 26, the Creator told me that the alcohol I used to deaden my feelings would kill me if I didn’t stop. I’m 69 now. I found a program that worked for me and I’m proud of who I am.”

“On days when the temperature was fifty-below, they would send us outside and we would huddle in a circle so we wouldn’t freeze. The little ones would always cry, so we would put them in the middle.”

“I accept him for who he is.”

“It breaks us as children to see what our parents had to endure.”

“Our relationship changed when I finally understood what he went through.”