PhotoTherapy

Incest Journal

"I wonder what my parents will say…I haven't confronted them with the sexual abuse memories I've been having. Well a funny thing happened when I saw myself in those pictures. I saw a beautiful, sad, complicated, courageous woman. I realized the worst was really not so bad. There was nothing wrong with me. I didn’t look like a "Playboy" centerfold but I didn’t care. For the first time I had sympathy for this somewhat tragic girl staring at me in all her naked vulnerable beauty.