“In Search of Sara”

Sara Allwright

What details of your life could you pay more attention to?

I feel somewhat apprehensive about revealing/writing this. But, one of the things I need to pay more attention to is:

To open up, verbalise, write about; finding Sara, the real me, not the suppressed me.

Three years ago I was diagnosed with CPTSD.

Prior to my diagnosis, I was evasive, silenced, unheard, and shut myself off from the world. I spent the majority of my childhood in a dissociative state. I constantly strived to be invisible. I could not express myself verbally or through the written word. I found safety in expressing my hidden world, my feelings, my emotions through Art.

I have recently completed a long and arduous course of EMDR Therapy. Although extremely difficult, this therapy has alleviated a lot of my trauma triggers. I have now reprocessed some of my most extreme distressing life experiences; especially childhood traumas.

I no longer want to be invisible!

This post is one of my first steps to owning my past traumas and becoming visible.

I am in the process of writing my memoir; ‘In search of Sara’. Not an easy task 🤪, a work in progress 😁😁.

Thank you for reading. 🙏🌻

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Published by Sara Allwright

Fine Artist

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  3. I’m happy about your decision to be visible, you are on the right path and deserve to be heard. It is very difficult to cope with the experience you had, and it is wonderful that you found a way to express it all in art. I know it gives a lot…
    I admire you and your strength, and I wish you to ‘find Sarah’ and be content 🙂
    Sending lots of my empathy and support to you!

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