“I saw the darkest of dark and that’s what I grew up around.”— Amy Bleuel, isharehope.comTagged: dark, Childhood, Trauma
“Hope says you belong. Just knowing that there is something bigger out there that has a light and actually says that we’re worth it, says that we belong, just having that word hope in the sense that you belong is powerful. It’s simple, yet so powerful.”— Amy Bleuel, isharehope.comTagged: Hope, Powerful
“I was an abused, angry kid who broke a lot of laws and didn’t really care. I lashed out. I was emotionally disturbed.”— Amy Bleuel, isharehope.comTagged: Child Abuse, Anger, Emotionally Disturbed, Lashing Out
“At the age of 13 to 18, to go away to a girl’s prison and during that time experiencing brutal self-harm, I would stop at nothing to destroy myself. I would beat my head against the wall until I bled. I would rip out my hair and use it to strangle myself. I bit myself. I friction burned myself with…”— Amy Bleuel, isharehope.comTagged: GIrl's Prison, self-harm, Masochism, Self-Destruction
“My story really starts at the age of six. My parents divorced at the age of 4, but my story really starts at six and it starts in a dark, brutal place—being abused by my stepmother for two years, being beaten with 2x4s, being told I was a devil’s child and that I didn’t deserve to live. Being locked…”— Amy Bleuel, isharehope.comTagged: Hope, perseverance, Abuse, Torture, dark