Tonya Anderson

I came to the Home of Grace for Women from Nashville, TN, with more problems that just being addicted to drugs and alcohol. With a lifetime of drug abuse that started when I was 12 years old. I had spent 28 years trying to fill the emptiness inside. Drugs had always been what I looked for to ease the shame and guilt of a lifetime of failure. Getting married young to an addict himself had its many years of troubles. Staying married for 20 years for the sake of not wanting a divorce to add to the list of failures that already included teen pregnancy, illegal crimes, not going to college & bankrupting a successful business. All of which added years of living with shame, guilt and emptiness to my already sick and lost soul. Through the years I had tried to stop using drugs and alcohol and even tried suicide as a way of stopping as well as several other treatment centers. I would get clean for a period of time but not knowing how to deal with myself and my problems I would always go back to what I had come to know as a solution, drugs and the lifestyle that went with it. As much as I wanted to stop I could not find the strength by myself. That was until arriving at the open arms and love of the Home of Grace. From the very first day I was shown the love that only could come from Jesus. Everyone there seemed to have something I had longed for. That was the peace, love and joy that come from having a relationship with Jesus Christ. Oh what a joy it is today to live free from the bondage that had me trapped for so many years. I now have a wonderful relationship with my 2 daughters, Tamra & Kelsie. I have started a new life here and I attend Faulkner University and plan to one day work with teenagers. I am clean today because of Jesus Christ and the Home of Grace.

Tonya now works for the Home of Grace as the Friendly Voice you will hear when you call the Home of Grace for Women.