This is my story. A story of a traumatic emotional shipwreck in my life and how I survived it, through learning to work with nature and trusting my own creativity. I share how growing, preserving and learning new skills helped me to provide for myself and allowed the satisfaction it gives inside me to bubble up into new confidence, calm and healing. I want to share the experience in order to help others in this situation to have hope, to increase their sense of well being as well as their physical health.