She is a sexual abuse survivor.
The story explained how Kendra coping with the effect of abuse. How she tried to cope them by cutting herself. She sees them as a way to maintain her sanity when things become to hard for her.
The story explained how the abuse effected her relationship with her parents. How their concerns suffocated her. How she feel her mother never listened to her even from the beginning. And indirectly she blamed her for her ignorant.
Kendra feels closer to her therapist, Carolyn Fairchild. Carolyn is more of a mom to her than her own mother. Carolyn understand her. Carolyn never pushed her. Carolyn sincerely concerned about her well being.
She also find solace with Sandy and Mrs Archer. These people understand, appreciate and encourage her to do her paintings. Something that comes from her inner self even if most of her painting seems raw and scary to others.
She find true relationship with Meghan, who promised will not betray her when thing get tough and not afraid of being different.
I read a lot of books about sexual abuse. Maybe to others, these stories were fictional but I believe in them. Maybe the characters are fictional but normally the stories were from real life sources.
I also read some books about a survivor of human trafficking. The stories had me so traumatised up until today. Every time when there are news about missing people especially women or children, it got me thinking about those books.
Not every person could survive from the abuse, physical or sexual, even with the help from people around them.
It takes a long time and a lot of effort to heal the unseen scars. Only few of them who strongly enough to survive the unfinished abuse but most of them drifted further into the in depth of the abused left behind by the abuser.
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