From the Dark into the Light

Introduction My name is Joanne Moyles, And I am 52 years old. "I grew up not in a happy family, full of violence, alcohol, domestic abuse, and no love. always felt like an outsider and from an early age was abused, that is when my mental health started. Isolating and crying in a lot of pain inside and out. I Felt like I was in my own prison cell, a lot of the times I did not want to be alive, I felt all my feelings and emotions were locked up inside me. When in a lot of dark places I would write poems because the people who I wanted to believe in me, people in authority, who could have stopped it, never did. In my mind I thought if I wrote it down it might help with all the pain I was feeling. I had drunk for a lot of years from a very young age, which led me going into rehab at 50 years old. I had hidden all the pain and emptiness and all my self-worth, behind drink and drugs. I still struggle day by day, sometimes it is a minute at a time but that is ok."