I had a good life full of fun and adventure. There was also pain and suffering that I had to work through. Like so many others out there, I thought that I was the only one who faced trauma, pain, illness and injury. I thought I was the only one who felt like they didn't belong in this world. Art therapy showed me the way through my pain and helped me reconnect to the world around me. I discovered the world, and the people in it, are simply a big puzzle we are all trying to assemble every day.

Accepting myself, my joys and my passions, helped me notice the world around me. Noticing the world around me helped me recognize that I wasn't alone in what I was going through and feeling. This is my way of sharing myself and my journey with the world. My hope is that someone out there sees they too are not alone, can feel safe shutting out the noise, looking within to then shine their uniqueness on the rest of the world.