Trauma Is a Room Inside Your Mind — An emotional week on CRY
Sometimes the stories on CRY really hit deep. Last week, we asked our writers to share stories of trauma and creativity and they delivered in a big way.
Maria Chance’s piece titled Trauma is a Room Inside Your Mind is writing at its finest. Maria assembles words brilliantly and sets them against a concept that had me applauding before I was even finished reading.
Trauma Is a Room Inside Your Mind
And just when I thought there was nothing that would even come close to Maria’s piece, D.L Shultz delivers a canon of a work titled On Living Through and Writing About Trauma.
It’s a longer read that’s filled with pain, with some tragedy, but is ultimately grounded in a kind of elusive hope. My favourite quotes (among many favourite quotes) from Shultz was this:
“I find that writing about trauma is like pulling pieces of broken glass out of my stomach. Some of these pieces have been in there for so long that my body has grown around them and yet every time I move I still feel their jagged edges lacerating my insides. When we dig into ourselves to find and remove these pieces we will undoubtedly reactivate wounds and bleed profusely. But once the pieces are removed, then our organism will be able to truly heal instead of accommodating and trying to grow around these violent intrusions.”
Wow. And then there’s this one:
“I have broken up with him many times but never for more than a day because whenever I pull away he is devastated at the prospect of losing me. Perhaps I am testing him — seeing if he really does love me by examining how he responds to me leaving. Perhaps I am being abusive by testing him and enjoying knowing that he is sad when I am gone.”On Living Through and Writing About Trauma
It’s really not possible to get any better than that. Just incredible pieces of writing that deserve some extra thought and attention.
Take a moment to read these stories and others on CRY.
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