I'm 33 years old, a mother, friend, and lover. I work alot, I am an assistant executive for a construction company, Red Cross Instructor and care taker. I have had many ups and downs in life, I am a teen mom at 15, I decided to keep him and my parents help me raise him, I finished high school and went on to get  a college degree 2 one in criminal justice and one in accounting, during this time I met my husband which became my ex husband 11 years later, we were young and having added 3 more children to our family, also during this time I took care of my father until the day he died, which hit close to home. I did alot with him and things never seem to be the same without him, felt lost, at this time would be the first time my husband left me for another woman, which happen often. This would be the low in my life, things were so bad that I started stealing from my employer and several months later was caught and arrested, I had to leave my children that will forever haunt me, I left them in the living room crying as I left to turn myself in. I spent 10 months between county, state prison and shock incarceration, where I learn alot about myself what makes me happy, I came home to a shelter, living with woman that had many addiction, I later moved to the YWCA where I started to put my life together, not to mention the rules that needed to be followed being on parole. I was able to get my job back at the Red Cross teaching I love teaching, starting a relationship with an old friend a starting a new life, My children are gone for know with their father, I think of them often, waiting for the day I am strong enough to be apart of their lives. I still have a long road in front of me, I need to know look at getting my body healthy. That is why I am starting this program.