I found help through creative/therapeutic writing. Writing that had the power to change the unchangeable, move the unmovable and cure the uncurable. Even if it is only through a letter, a poem, keeping a journal or by writing stories. I worked through flashbacks and traumas and listened to the voice of my silenced child.
My journey of creative/therapeutic writing helped me to discover and strengthen my identity. The identity of the right-brained creative person I was meant to be.
During a period of hypergraphic writing I wrote an autobiographical, fictional book entitled Emily: Out of My Mother’s Darkness. The book of Emily reconnected me with the little girl who suffered intense emotional pain at the hands of a mother and an unenlightened generation. The character of Emily was the voice of my silenced child—a voice that would surface like a submarine—a submarine I tried to sink time and time again—a voice that now sails through time and space in the written word. Including what you now read.
