How Loss and Love Can Lead to Creative Persistence

Life has not been easy for me.  I was the child victim of a religious cult, my family was poor, and as an adult, I lost my firstborn daughter to Turner's Syndrome at birth.  More recently, I suffered through a divorce due to my former spouse's extreme difficulties with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.  You could say I've been through the ringer. Yet, if not for these mishaps and hardships, I wouldn't be the person I am today.  I wouldn't have the same stories to tell: stories that can help to heal others who have been through similar circumstances.  I wouldn't have the same heartfelt desire to keep pushing to get those stories heard. Creativity and persistence are good bedfellows.  I've been creative my entire life.  I've written poetry, songs, and stories for as long as I can remember.  But it's only been since 2001 that my writing has taken on the depth that makes it unique.  In 2001, I lost my firstborn daughter, "Angel Hope."  I dealt with that loss by writing a dozen or more heartfelt songs that helped me to cope with such a tragic life event. More recently, in 2010, I lost my father to cancer.  That loss triggered a desire to write about my childhood experience as the victim of an extreme religious cult.  I'd tried to write the story twice before, once in 1998, and again in 2002.  Nothing clicked.  My early versions felt stale and uninteresting.  So I gave up both times.  But in 2011, I started a blog and wrote an entire book, A Train Called Forgivenes...
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