Hope House has given me a full and rich life after many years of domestic abuse, physical and emotional. I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for the new and wonderful life full of self esteem, confidence and the courage to change from choosing this type of companion to looking out for myself. Thank you once again for my new life.

Hope House has made me feel like I am not the only one going through things in my relationship and it is so nice to know that there is help out there. It has made me feel better about myself and I look forward each week to come to the support group. It is a wonderful place for people in need! Thanks!

I am blessed for the support and knowledge to become an emotionally independent person. IÕm looking at myself for the first time in my life as a worthwhile person. IÕm so grateful for the way I feel after each group. I feel good and validated as a person without judgement. I know my self-esteem is getting better and I know what to look for in a healthy relationship. I deserve to be happy and have loving friends. Without the support Hope House, I would still be practicing negative thinking and being in an abusive relationship.

The staff at Hope House encouraged me all along and kept me from just giving up. They helped me regain my own identity and opinions and ideas again. The therapy sessions have strengthened me mentally and physically too. I thank God for Hope House and the hope it provides for people like me who have become so badly abused.

My experience at Hope House has been very empowering from the very beginning. I received guidance, nutritious meals and support for my mental and physical abuse. I have learned that there is hope even in a bad situation and there are people who can help.

Your therapy class was the most profound instrument that truly changed my life. I will never be able to articulate the impact that you and the provocative questions you raised, challenged my life, my mind, and my belief system. It is like a language you understand but no one speaks, and you feel alone, then suddenly Ð one day you meet someone who has a manual of all the words of your language Ð and for the first time you can speak and you are understood. I have grown, I am grateful, I am blessed and for the first time perhaps in my life, I feel I am really living it!

Today my future is much brighter thanks to the help I received from Hope House. I found a much better paying job, I have my own apartment and my own car. I am able to make better choices in my life and feel truly independent for the first time. My daughters have learned not to take responsibility for otherÕs feelings and actions, and that you donÕt have to accept a life of abuse. By my actions, they now know that people can change their lives for the better. I can honestly say from my heart that Hope House saved my life. I want to share my story to help others understand there is hope. With help from others, like those at Hope House, you can have a better life.