Post #7 – Women’s Memoirs, Writing and Healing – Kendra Bonnett and Matilda Butler
Finding Healing through Writing
We invite you to send us your story of how writing has been a form of healing for you. Some find healing through journaling. Others find healing through writing their memoir. Perhaps there are other ways that writing has been healing for you. Just email between 200-600 words (or longer if you contact us first) to: Matilda (at) WomensMemoirs (dot) com. We are interested in publishing your thoughts on writing and healing on this website — either with your name or anonymously, your choice. Today’s story comes from Pamila Jo Florea.
CONTRACT WITH MYSELF
Pamila Jo Florea
A CONTRACT – that’s what they called it at the personal growth workshop I attended. Personal growth, my eye. I was angry, bitter, jealous, vengeful – everything except loving. And now this? A contract on how I want to live my life? How I wanted to live my life was just to survive. It wasn’t rocket science, people. I needed to just get through the day!
I adored my sister, and she avoided me. My father’s gun, pointed at me, [click to continue…]
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