How it Was and the Changes I Have Made, is a true story about a young woman's journey through a traumatizing childhood, and adolescence, her battle with her parents, and with her clinical depression, and the gospel that saved her life. "I suppose that from an early age, I knew that my family was a little different. My family, and I had been through a lot. However, it was not until I was happily married that I really understood the darkness of my childhood, and adolescence. Between a negligent father, an unstable mother, and a cruel stepfather-our family dynamics were not exactly normal." -McKell Hadlock