FOUNDER

My name is Amy Veilleux-Bellisle. I am a wife and mother of two children and a grandmother. I was raised in an amazing loving family and brought up to know about God and was taught the bible and the principles of Jesus Christ. Even though I understood and had knowledge of right and wrong, I began experimentally drinking alcohol and using drugs at the age of 16. I compromised my morals and rebelled against my parents and started having unhealthy relationships with men. I had begun laying a foundation for the next 20 years of my life, filled with trauma, physical, mental and sexual abuse. I had two children by the time I was 25 years old and found myself doing hard drugs and drinking steadily. I could never keep a job very long, due to my inconsistent ability to focus and stay sober and I had no control over any of my addictions and broken relationships. I moved many times because I was evicted from not paying rent or sometimes because I was forced to leave a relationship that had become unsafe for myself and my children. Fast forward to 2016…my addiction had taken over my life completely, my children no longer could stay with me because of my mental state of psychosis, I had now become the unsafe person for anyone to be around. I could hear my heart pounding in my chest as it struggled to keep beating. I could feel my bones cracking because I was so small and had lost so much weight. I was under 100 lbs. at a height of 5’7.”

One day I just knew I was going to die in this state, and I was so scared. I talked to God that day and said out loud “God, if you are real…please show me… because I don’t feel anything anymore and I’m going to die.” It was in that moment that I felt a presence so strong like a warm blanket cover me… I dropped to my knees and cried. I asked God to help me find my way back to Him, but still I thought “I’m too broken for Him to fix me”.

I called Teen Challenge, a faith-based recovery home in Brooklyn and I traveled to New York, since Maine did not have any women’s recovery homes. I spent the next 12 months finding my way back to God and reading His word. It was in this place I found freedom from everything that was killing me, body, soul and mind.

I am still living in victory today and following Jesus. I have always known I would be helping women who were brokenhearted and addicted. I want to do what I can to help the women in my community to be able to heal in a place where they can encounter Jesus.

In His Service

Amy Veilleux-Bellisle