The Traveler: Journeys in D.I.D.

 In February of 2014,  I was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.). For 9 years I had been working and going to school in order to provide the kind of life I thought I was supposed to live. I have a Bachelor's in Art, A Master's in Teaching, and I was about to graduate with a Master's degree in College Student Devlopment and beginning the process of pursuing a Ph.D. Shortly after my diagnosis I experienced a sudden and massive breakthrough, and the way I experienced life and reality had changed in ways I never could have imagined.  An opening was created in my psyche that gave way for the conscious and unconscious parts of myself to begin communicating and expressing; providing an opportunity to process and portray these experiences through a variety of mediums. It was at this time that I returned to the arts. This journey is all about falling in, sinking down, and awakening to parts of myself that had been hidden and layered with protective coatings giving way to the ability to rise up after the fall and find some kind of consistent theme within the chaotic inconsistencies of the multiplicities in my mind and life.