Into the Darkness: One Girl's Journey to Find Her Light (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798893450095)

Into the Darkness is about a girl named Moonbeam, who had a challenging childhood and early adulthood. Many years later, she found happiness with a wizard named Lion Heart, giving her and her children a start to a new life. One morning, Moonbeam was woken up by chaos as she discovered three dark portals appearing and killing the ground surrounding them. As she looked into them, she saw glimpses of her past and the pain she thought she had buried.

Moonbeam had to go through the three dark portals to find peace and healing with her past in order to save and protect the home she had built with Lion Heart and protect future generations from the destruction that the darkness threatened to unleash. Once Moonbeam did the work to make it through the three portals, she came out to find that the forest outside town was still dying and realized there was more work to be done. In the forest, Moonbeam had to face the monsters such as anger, guilt, and shame that had been created from not dealing with her past for so long. This is when she had to dig deep within herself and find the strength that had been there all along; she just didn't see it. Will the darkness consume her, or will she become the light that leads the way out?

As a PTSD survivor, writing this story has been healing in the simple act of writing it for me. I am not a therapist and encourage anyone who needs help to seek the help they need, but I do hope my story will shine a little light in the darkness for others on their path to healing and a brighter future.