Telling my story sets me free from these walls. I hope to carry on my mission and help women with trauma. What was meant for bad can be turned to good.
I am taking classes and believe that education is important. I like to crochet and draw portraits, both are relaxing. Being locked up is lonely. I love life and family. In prison the last seven years I’ve learned a lot about myself. I enjoy school and learning new things. Getting my GED and enrolling in college classes transformed me into a new person. One who has compassion and understanding of society unlike before prison. I have learned to interact with others on a level of comfort and peace instead of turmoil and violence which were learned in my childhood home full of domestic violence, abuse, and alcoholism. I have also learned how to overcome abuse and anorexia through writing, drawing and crocheting. Teaching a domestic violence support group in my barracks has helped me. I sell crocheted items to the free world to support myself. There has to be a better way. Telling my story sets me free from these walls. I hope to carry on my mission and help women with trauma. What was meant for bad can be turned to good.
Hi Kathy!
Thanks for sharing your story. We are all in this together. Your sharing is an example of the real prison we each build in our own minds through hate, judgment, and attack. Walls can contain the body, but they cannot contain the freedom you are expressing in your heart. The only way out is in…with the willingness to give these limiting thoughts, feelings, and beliefs up to the love and light of God. This is my practice every moment of the day. I hold you in my own release to reality we share as spirit…as one.