My art represents all the struggles of the thousands of patients I ’ ve helped cross the bridge from pain and suffering to joy and growth .
If the viewer can take the same journey and feel the same healing catharsis , then it is like therapy .
When I ’ m walking someone across that bridge from despair to hope , I have full confidence that I can do it because I know that bridge well and every inch of every path that can get you to it and across it and the paths that can keep you on the side of hope .
Don ’ t get me wrong , I fought crossing that bridge for many years , pushed away many helping hands , stood proud and independent but in pain . But finally I found the right combination of help , self-awareness , knowledge , forgiveness , acceptance , and I ’ ve reached a point in my life where not only have I crossed the bridge from despair to hope , but I can cross back over without any fear and guide other people through the pitfalls and scary places until they too can feel free .
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