My name is Darcie and I am 26 years old. I was born and raised in Winnipeg, MB, in a non-Christian home. Growing up I had a vague idea of God, but to me He was something to fear. I started drinking and experimenting with drugs when I was 12. I partied my way through both junior high and high school, and at the age of 17, I had my first of many suicide attempts. From this time on, I would have months of sobriety, but always seemed to go back to partying and my old way of life. I was on a quest to find something that would fill the void that I had inside of me, I tried, alcohol, drugs, men, and money. But this left me even more empty and hopeless.
After going to treatment for the first time, I maintained a sober lifestyle for over a year, but had replaced one addiction with another and thus became a bulimic and a compulsive over-exerciser. On the outside I looked good but little did people know I was dying on the inside.
While spending a week in the hospital after an attempted suicide, my sister’s Pastor came to visit me and as a result I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Although I was a Christian, I continued to struggle, so in April 2008 I came to the Teen Challenge Women’s Centre. It is here that I have leaned how to apply the word of God to my life. I no longer fear God the way I used to, now I have a loving relationship with Him. I have learned that I am not an “alcoholic” but I have a new identity in Christ. I know that God has amazing plans from my future. I will continue to delight in Him and He will give me the desires of my heart.