Book Secret 8

Another amazing "Secret" of my writing "Trauma and the Golden Lady" is my newly found appreciation of poetry. As stated in the book, early in my life I had developed a negative regard for poetry. I couldn't understand it, viewed it as odd and disjointed, never read it, couldn't write it. I just ignored it, avoided it, a lot like we tend to do with trauma. It was never a part of my life. Through my research for the book, however, I found myself having to read it, looking to understand, even experimenting with letting myself be free and creative and write a few lines. The brief statements at the beginning of many of the chapters are my imperfect, yet inspired words from my clients and my clinical work. It's the best I'm able to be "poetic" at this time and in no way to be interpreted as poem-writing on my part, as I would fail miserably at such a deeply learned art, as manifested by Sylvia, her husband or her daughter. These statements, thanks to my work about (and perhaps with) Sylvia, reflect my now new-found "trying" to express my self from deep within, from and with my spirit and soul. It's a bit of my expressing who I am and what I've experienced. I do believe this is what Sylvia sought and used to struggle to do. What a gift this has become for me. I guess I have Sylvia to thank for this.