I am 19 years old, I am in College full time, to be a Correctional Officer. I have lost, both my parents, a brother, and I have had two Miscarriages. Overall, I live for the day, always thinking, that today may be my last day here. I want to do everyone proud so I hang tall the best I can. I am very helpful, so I have been told. I am always there is someone needs a hand, or an ear. My friend, which I Love dearly, know they can always count on me to be there for them. I Love them more than life itself. I Live with my God mother, and her two daughter, and her boyfriend. I Love to laugh, have fun, and Write. I will always be here is someone needs me.

I am a 35 year old female who lives in the middle of nowhere North Dakota, basically because it is a calm place to live. I am the wife of a man i have been married to for ten years and a daughter who is 2 years old. She is my sunshine. I have had a hard life gone through years of therapy and am almost through with school for psy. I had been molested as a child, abused by a bipolar mother, raped, been left for dead and had several emotional, and physically abusive relationships. I am however what you call resilant and have become a survivor. I have learned many things during my journey. Hobbies for example are a wonderful way to cope, i paint, scrapbook and play violin. I also believe in baby steps to recovery and a plan. I often have people refocus there sight to there positive traits, to often people focus on the negative and to often they are defined by the labels people give them- bipolar, depressed, ptsd. I have ptsd and mild generalized anxiety. I also suffer insomia and night terrors. I have had three miscarriages in my life. The first was when i was young and my boyfriend did not react well and pushed me down the stairs. The second was five years latter when i became pregnant on the birthcontrol pills while taking antibiotics and it was tubal. I still managed to have a child. Which i hope gives people who have had miscarriages hope. The third was recently while on birthcontrol pills the estrogen level in the pills were to low and i became pregneant. It to was tubal. I hope my story and recovery will give people some light in there lives.