“When I looked in the mirror, I hated what I saw.” Chanelle was consumed by self-hatred. She felt lost and misunderstood, like she was searching for answers she could never find.
“There were times where I would try to just imagine myself in the future and I couldn’t. It was just black.” Hopelessness ate away at her, leaving Chanelle with a gaping hole inside.
My future was black.
She ran to her addictions—drugs, alcohol, guys—to try to fill the void. “The hole just got bigger,” she said. Her life was like a battlefield, shame and addiction fighting for control, until one day Chanelle’s dad asked her to go to Teen Challenge.
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“There were times where I would try to just imagine myself in the future and I just couldn’t. It was just black.”
“There were times where I would try to just imagine myself in the future and I just couldn’t. It was just black.”
— Chanelle Harrett, Teen Challenge Canada Graduate
— Chanelle Harrett, Teen Challenge Canada Graduate
