B R E A T H E: March 2008

BREATHE... a journal

This blog is a preview for my memoirs. Sort of a journal. I like to post some of my ideas and inspirations here.

The journal has about 145 pages written so far and will also feature some of my artwork and pictures. Not a book. Not a comic book. CHAOTIC, like me.

As you can see, I am not writing in a typical format. The pages might look like poems but it's simply because I like things short and simple. Clean.

If you have ever experienced depression, you know that reading a book with pages filled with words is discouraging and you quickly lose interest...

BREATHE focuses on what I have learned and experienced so far, after the loss of my dad and the depression that followed.

I started writing to vent, but it has led me to knowing myself a bit better-- my limits, my dreams.

-Janie

Thursday, March 13, 2008

I sometimes feel like I have a story to tell...

but I’m no story teller.

I create!

When I can...

It comes and goes.

Like depression.

It’s not the first time that’s happened to me.

But it’s the first time I know what it is, what it feels like,

how it empties you, dries you out.

It only leaves behind an empty shell of yourself

that you have to work hard to refill.

This time I realised I couldn’t do it alone...

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There it is, the first page of my memoir...

"Breathe: a journal about my depression".

It's a work in progress...

My main language is French, so why am I doing this in English?

My therapist only speaks English. I have therefore, come to manage, study and express my emotions in English.

I am first and foremost, doing this for myself.

If this should ever see the light of day, in the form of a book, I hope it brings hope to people who read it.

BREATHE... a journal