Journaling, writing short stories, drawing, poetry and any form of artwork are great
sources of therapy while coping with a traumatic event. While feeling so many various emotions, sometimes it is just
easier to draw or write about your anger, hurt, betrayal, feelings of helplessness or whatever other emotions you are experiencing.
Art Therapy is just another of the numerous ways to cope and help us with the healing process. If you are the parent/loved
one of a child or know a child who has been sexually abused, encourage them to express their emotions via drawing, painting
or sculpting. Children are much more able to vent their emotions via art than to talk about how they feel.
Journaling has been the tool that helps me the most during my journey of healing. I had never written poetry before.
However one night, during a very rough time a few years ago, the words to the poem below just came to me and I am sharing
it with you.
I hope you will share your story, artwork or poetry with this site so others will benefit from
your artistic expression. Everyone experiences the healing process in various ways. This site was designed to let people
know you do not have to deal with the destruction of sexual abuse alone. One of the things I have come to learn
along my journey, is that no one else knows exactly what we are experiencing and dealing with except those others who have
been through this horrible ordeal themselves.
Please e-mail your artwork to us, so we can post it on this site
to share with others. You can send your work anonymously, or add your name so we can include it with your work.
We will always respect your privacy. Anything we can do, to help others experiencing the turmoil we have already endured,
can be beneficial to us all. It also helps us as we move slowly along our healing journey.
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The Dream
If
we as humans could only go back
relearn,
relive,
restep and rechoose
Oh, what a wonderful world this could
be
But we cannot
So instead, the tears flow
The loneliness becomes lonelier
The darkness becomes
darker
And we survive
~Website Owner
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