This is life for 21-year-old Becca Boerma of Grand Rapids. Boerma is turning her pain into purpose by creating a display of ceramic art pieces to represent the chronic pain she's lived with for years.

Paras Griffin/Getty Images, FILE Dolph's tragic death ... which has kept her "uplifted" as she deals with the pain. "I'm turning this pain into purpose right now," she said.

The pain persisted even ... experience to shape myself into the person that I want to be in the future. I think I really knew that I wanted to do something that would give me meaning in my life, like ...

To know that I’d been institutionalized so many times, to know that I had hurt my family in so many ways, and to now be in this position where I can share all of that pain that I endured ...

But Trottere is turning her pain into purpose, she said, to work toward a future where no other parent has to feel the anguish she has. “It’s not for everybody,” Trottere said of her advocacy.

After enduring hard labor and torture, the five men tried to turn their pain into purpose. “And that was the way (my father) dealt with it,” De La Rosa said. “He was always there to help ...