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Kim was driven to tell her story

How you can write your personal story even if it's painful OR doesn't follow a strict beginning, middle and end formula.

Kim was driven to tell her story. She needed a way to get the pain out. PTSD feels like a life sentence for a crime youโ€™ve not committed. Breaking out of the prison of pain seems impossible. Writing helped give words to her feelings. Kim wrote to heal. The subject did not lend itself to a beginning, a middle, and an end. Instead, Kim created buckets - topics she wanted to cover - aspects that needed to be on the page - issues that she faced. The words flowed into the buckets Kim had defined.

It was at this point Kim read a blog by Bloom in the Dark wherein she suggested if writing a personal story of pain that you write three versions; a hurting, a healing and a helping version.

Kim decided to self-publish. Kim wanted to keep control of her story and use her experience to help others; self-publishing gave her this. Also, there was the matter of timing, PTSD was all over the news following the pandemic and it felt important not to delay publication.

Kim says: "After speaking to Patrick at Publishing Push I felt ready to turn my story into a manuscript." Kim's book is her mental health roadmap and she hopes it will provide support to people who have suffered trauma.