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Personal Narrative On Becoming A Child Therapist

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Have you ever felt as if you were unwanted? I woke up and went to bed with

that feeling every day until I was about nineteen. I was taken away from my

parents when I was only twenty two months old. I was molested, neglected, and

abused. No child should ever have to go through what I went through. This is why

I plan on becoming a Child Therapist. There are many children that have nobody

to talk to or fall back on for support. I know that with the Lord on my side I can

accomplish anything and I will graduate from college and become the change this

world needs.

At the mere age of twenty two months old I was shipped half way across the

country and put into foster care. I was put in five foster homes
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