I have found artwork to be a wonderful creative outlet for me and it's enabled me to explore my feelings and thoughts and emotions in a very safe way... It also takes you along many twists and turns - just like life itself!!! Nobody ever knows what truly goes on behind closed doors and it's a very sad world we live in when innocent young children are subjected to horrific abuse and trauma on a daily basis... Due to the circumstances surrounding my childhood and early adulthood I now live with multiple mental health diagnoses which I have to manage on a daily and sometimes hourly basis... Throughout all this I have never allowed the monsters who continually tried to overpower me win... They will never be able to snuff out the flame or extinguish the light that still shines within me... It has taken me many years to find this strength and now I have finally risen from the ashes like a phoenix ready to fly again...