“my choices were bad…I had to do something to kill the pain…it was easier not to feel than to feel the pain, so I would use anything and everything I could get my hands on to get rid of that pain…
"When I came here (to ICM) I was desperate and broken my life was a black hole…what I saw here was something I’d never tried before. I found a true belief that Jesus might love someone like me and that he would forgive me for all the horrible things I’d done to myself and others.” - Candace