you have been thru so very much my friend.... my heart is with you...

those "images".... are there for me too... they are my "images"... frozen for what seems like forever....

working with a "medium".... might help to get the emotions out... perhaps not the "snapshot".... it has helped me..... I never know what the "medium" is going to be.... until I just "start"...

I think.. this will never help.... and then as I start to get into a project... it does...

for me... I have used.. collages.... with pictures symbolizing... the emotions... and... I don't "think" really... as I build... it just "flows" out of me onto the paper.. or whatever I am building... once I built a scale model... of a room where I was raped... and that helped... because as I went about building this model - my "feelings" just processed......

they "unfroze"... the feelings... they "released"... I didn't have the "words... to talk about the experience... but could put it into another form....

the "end result".... was the "image" was there still - but didn't "haunt" my every moment.... there wasn't the pain, the feelings surrounding the "snapshot".... so it didn't "hurt" me or "haunt" me anymore...