I was bought up in a home that regularly attended church and were so called Christians however I never embraced the fullness of what that meant. Emotions were not readily expressed in my household and as a result they became suppressed and I struggled to walk in truth and found myself living in a web of lies and self-deceit.

At the age of 26 I’d just come out of an engagement after 5 years of ‘relationship’ lived outside of Gods covenant plan for my life. My boyfriend became more and more controlling and possessive so I ended the relationship even though I really loved him and that was an extremely difficult and painful time. I also experienced a bereavement of a teenage boy who had grown up around my family who died in a car crash. It didn’t take long before unresolved grief and pain pushed me over the edge and led me to make some very destructive choices. Read more…