My Story
My name is Iesha Moody. I’m a mother of 4. I had my first baby girl Spirit at the age of 16. I was born and raised in Chicago Il. Until I had my Babygirl which was born in battle creek my life before then was just a mess. I had nothing my mother was on drugs still is to this day. Nevertheless, I still love my mother always and forever. My dad always be in and out of jail my whole life. I have 4 sisters, 3 on my mother’s side and 1 on my dad’s side. Right now, all 4 of my sisters stay here in Michigan. Chicago was just too much to raise our kids in knowing how we had to struggle. Growing up my 3 older sisters had my grandma, I was always with my mother living from shelter to shelter from a young child up until I was 14 I had decided that it was best for me to go live with my older sister Desire and that was the worst mistake I could had ever made but then again I was young didn’t know no better and thought I was making a better decision. She allowed me and my young cousins to drink and smoke, and it was just up from there. Which was all the things my mother tried her best to keep me from. I always knew my mother got high, but I never saw it happen. I just knew she needed help, and we could not get a house of our own because she wasn’t stable enough. So, she really did the best she could do while fighting her addiction. She taught me how to hustle, how to always keep money, how to love to be patient and kind. Always to care about others and to stay safe. I used to tell myself when I got older/grown I would always keep a crib over my kids’ head and for the last 18 years that is what I have done by any means. I love my kids unconditionally. They are all I have and live for. When I was 15, I was raped and got pregnant with my first child. She still doesn’t know…I got molested by half of my mother’s boyfriends and didn’t tell her until 2024 after I tried to kill myself because it happened to my daughter the one time, I let her out of my sight in 10 years. I was heartbroken because I talked to her about things like this and she didn’t tell me until she was 18. I felt like a failure more than I already did because I always did what I knew to stay ahead because I felt I wasn’t smart enough. I dropped out of school early because I have a learning disability that I wasn’t getting help for on top of all of the other issues I had going on. Then I met a man amend Bruce Kevin Wilson and my life changed. He actually loves me for me. I didn’t have to sleep with him or do anything I didn’t want to. I love him for that. We were together for 5 years he was a lot older than me, but he died, and I was so hurt I could bear the pain, so I started using drugs and slowly losing myself. Then one day I said to myself, do you remember how you used to feel when your mom was on drugs and everything you went through and said to myself “my kids deserve better, the mom that they always knew, hell I deserve better.” So, it took me a little more time, but I got it done. I started going to meetings and just staying busy, which kept my mind from wanting to get high. Today I look back at what I’ve been through and want to pat myself on the back because only through the grace of God that I made it through the storm right time. My kids are happy, I still always provided, I’m able to overcome things I thought I couldn’t. I love my life and my family and I’m just taking it one day at a time knowing I want more for us and I’m not giving up. God hasn’t brought me this far to let me go now. I believe in myself a lot more these days with a humble heart. I’m doing this for Spirit, Sincere, Sparkle, and Sa’Vion my angels.