Pen to paper - #WhenIBecameFree - The Heartland Project
Helps - Yes, keeping a journal is healing. Looking back at my life and during some of those darkest moments there was one thing I always did - I kept a diary of sorts. My first couple of ones were filled with doodles, my love for animals and, of course, the band-Journey as well as David Bowie. Sometimes there would be a poem - and others times just one sentence describing my deep thought or question for the day. I would go in spurts of writing non stop for weeks on end, and then all of a sudden I couldn't find words to write. For some twisted entertainment sake I'd leave cryptic messages for my mother in the diary I kept out in the open. However for the one hidden in a box, under my bed, I would write about my fears, my dreams, and sometimes how I wish I could close my eyes and life would stop. I was a very depressed teen, way before Goth became popular. This was back when I was sick all the time, and away from school -at home or in the hospital. My spleen ever