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My Personal Blog. |
| This is a blog about the book I am currently writing, CHERRY’S WINGS. This book is a follow up to my published book, CHERRY’S ARMY. My’ blog will also deal with other things that I am doing now. |
| Quite a few things have happened since I let my membership expire. One major thing is that I wrote a book and iuniverse is publishing it. It will be released in October. The title is CHERRY’S ARMY. I hope you will purchase it and read it. It is a powerful account of my abusive childhood and my recovery. I have Dissociative Identity Disorder, (DID), formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder. (MPD) my book is written in verse, as well as having some pages in regular writing. I am planning on blogging about my current life experiences on a regular basis. Here is the first entry for my blog. Many people wonder why I chose to put my journal verses in book form. The reason is simple. I had all these verses scattered through several notebooks. I didn’t want to lose my verses, nor did I want to keep all the notebooks. They were taking up too much room and I couldn’t locate any specific verse if I wanted to reread it for some reason. I decided to gather all my verses into one place, so took out my notebooks and started to copy them onto a word document. I was amazed at how many verses I had actually written. This was a very time consuming job and I almost gave up several times. I am a determined person however, so I would always resume the project at a later time. It took me several years to compile my verses in one place. I misplaced many of my poems due to the fact that I am a very disorganized person. As a result some of them are missing. My psychologist, Dr. Alan Franks, had asked me many times to share my verses with other abuse victims, as he felt they could be helpful in their recovery also. I wasn’t interested at the time. I was much too busy trying to survive the memories as they were recovered. After a few years had passed and I was functioning more normally, I started thinking about what Dr. Franks had encouraged me to do. It kept bothering me that I was keeping them to myself when I should have been using them to help others. That thought kept circling around in my head until I felt compelled to do something about it. I felt that if I didn’t, I would never have any peace. The experiences didn’t just belong to me, they belonged to all the others inside and they wanted me to share them. I decided to write about the verses, explaining what was happening that caused me to write that particular verse. I figured that if I was going to write about my past abuse I needed to introduce my story by writing about my family life. I wrote about my birth family and about what I had experienced at their hands. I also wrote about my current family and what they were experiencing as I recovered. It seemed that the more verses I wrote, the more explanation was needed. |
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