“My brother and sister had to go and take all the guns from the house, and hide them just to keep me safe because I was at a really serious stage. I had planned on how I was going to do it,” Brooke Gardner recalls....

Polly had a twisted view of love after a childhood of sexual traumas. She floundered for years, eventually getting married, but still carrying the scars of an abused little girl....

Audra endured childhood abuse and grew to hate being a girl. When she turned to other women to find love and acceptance, one special woman’s kind gesture instead showed her the love of God....

When Karri Carter had her fourth child, she decided it was time to leave nursing, and be a stay-at-home mom. “I worked during the pregnancy with my fourth child. After she was born I went home like normal. It was a normal delivery; nothing out of t...

In the shadow of a special needs sibling, Lee was able to cultivate an affinity for drugs that would plague him for years....

Nate suffered a traumatic brain injury when he fell off a ladder at work. Doctors gave him little chance of survival....

She was hooked on cocaine to the point where she lived in a crack house. Dinah needed to be rescued from her addiction....