Four years ago I thought I wanted to be a nurse, because it paid well. I realized nursing wasn’t were my passion was. It didn’t have a hold on my heart. So, despite the urging of several members of my family and friends, I changed my focus. I had begun volunteering with a group at my church called Life Hurts God Heals (LHGH). This group is similar to a 12-step recovery group. They focus on teens and young adults who are struggling with life’s hurts, hang ups, and bad habits. They focus on helping individuals who struggle with addictions, cutting, mental illness, daily struggles of teenage life, or hard life circumstances. While this group is Christ centered we welcome anyone who would like to try and learn better ways of coping with their life stresses, and bad habits.
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I struggled throughout my adolescence to maintain some kind of normalcy; and despite my parents’ attempts to see my perspective they were simply at a loss. I became a leader at LHGH because I wanted to help teenagers to know there are people who have been where they are and felt how they feel, people who have managed to come out of the terrible teenage years better. To help them to have hope for their futures. I started mentoring and counseling with LHGH because I wanted to be of service to a group of individuals that I felt impassioned to stand beside. That group helped me to see where I want to be in my life and what I want to spend my life in service of. I want to be able to help as many young adults and teens as I can to know they do not have to turn to drugs, alcohol, cutting or any other number of devices to deal with their pain. That they can learn the skills to cope with hard lives and that they can be the amazing individuals they were created to
I struggled throughout my adolescence to maintain some kind of normalcy; and despite my parents’ attempts to see my perspective they were simply at a loss. I became a leader at LHGH because I wanted to help teenagers to know there are people who have been where they are and felt how they feel, people who have managed to come out of the terrible teenage years better. To help them to have hope for their futures. I started mentoring and counseling with LHGH because I wanted to be of service to a group of individuals that I felt impassioned to stand beside. That group helped me to see where I want to be in my life and what I want to spend my life in service of. I want to be able to help as many young adults and teens as I can to know they do not have to turn to drugs, alcohol, cutting or any other number of devices to deal with their pain. That they can learn the skills to cope with hard lives and that they can be the amazing individuals they were created to