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. 🙏🌻