Melody described herself when she first arrived at Madonna House as a “very round, terrified, small, human.” Of her first experience of Madonna House, she says, “Nothing anybody could have said would have compared to experiencing walking through those doors the first time. And them saying ‘this is your room, this is where you’re going to stay, this is where we’re going to help you to get back on your feet, and this is what we’re going to do to help you’…It’s just that much of a family dynamic…it’s like coming home.”