Painting Life

When Carol Walsh pulled her fianc from the bottom of a diving welldead from a massive heart attackher life was turned upside down. Even though she was a psychotherapist working with clients suffering from trauma, this personal shock felt unbearable. Nonetheless, she had to heal herself while supporting clientsand, as a single mother, her two children. Using the creative interests shed developed during childhood in order to emotionally save herself from a difficult mother, she fully recovered from her grief and PTSD symptomsand as she recreated her personal, artistic, and professional life, she began to thrive.