My name is Evangelist Noel LaBrecque the assistant director and the wife of Minister Darren LaBrecque from Bro-Hun Recovery Outreach. I was born into an abusive home. I pray my life story, and experience will help direct and change the life of someone who is dealing with mental illness. I have been in and out of many foster homes that were also abusive if not worse. I would not be here if it were not for God. My life had been already laid out for me by God, even though I may not have seen it. I was sexually abused by my grandfather who then later when I acted out had demons cast out of me. My father punched my mom who was nine months along in the stomach leaving me scared and born with twisted toes that had to be reshaped. My dad sexually abused me on visits during his “drinking stumpers!”
Doctors said I would never talk or walk but look at me now I am a living miracle and proof of God’s existence! I did not speak until I was eight years old and when I did, the Doctor who evaluated me cried. I left when I was eight only to be put into homes that are more abusive worse than the first. One form of abuse I can remember after I left my house was a boy who sexually abused me while posing in front of a Playboy magazine, he would abuse me till it hurt, but I could not say anything, for his mom would not believe me! In this home, I was also, tied hands and feet to a bike pushed down a graveyard where I hit a gravestone only to have the mom to say get back on. My early life was I lived in 14 foster homes 12 of them abusive and two of them Christian.
The first Christian one could not adopt me and had to let me go, because of bad behavior; I hated them. Eventually, after a few other bad homes, I went to another foster home that was Christian although the foster mother was obsessive-compulsive she led me back to the Lord! I met again up with my other Christian foster parents, and this foster dad became a pastor and helped to perform my wedding. counselor counseling services
Before my marriage, I had a dream about being crucified on a cross and felt joy like, I never felt before. Then I had a second dream where I was yanking my hands off the cross, and the Lord told me to be still and trust Him. I did not understand the meaning of the dream until years later when I got married to my husband, Darren LaBrecque when all my past abuse came rushing back, and I took it out on my husband Minister Labrecque, and yet he stayed the course, and I love him all the more for it. God has made our marriage stronger through faith, trust and understanding. My goal is like my husband’s, except my mission is to reach the woman who had/have a dark past.
As a couple, my husband and I have the experiences & faith to counsel married couples who struggle in their marriages. Little did I know my husband to be would somehow be connected to my childhood. I found out that his mom not only knew the doctor who evaluated me when I was eight years old, but she thinks she may have been working the same time that I came in to be evaluated. My dad is now a born-again Christian who prays for me, and we talk every day!
My goal is to counsel and equip women who have been abused, dealing with anxiety, anger, self-esteem, and family life issues, with counseling services in counseling and recovery in mental health Greenfield.