Woman I Kept Becoming: A Memoir of Art, Trauma, and Transformation

The Woman I Kept Becoming: A Memoir of Art, Trauma, and TransformationWhat if the art we create knows something about us that we have yet to understand?For Barbara Carter, the journey to becoming an artist became something far more profound: a search to understand herself.Through fabric, paint, collage, and mixed media, Barbara followed an intuitive creative path. Again and again, her artwork revealed truths she could not yet put into words. What began as an exploration of artistic expression gradually became a way of uncovering the deeper layers of her life.Looking back across decades of childhood trauma, marriage, motherhood, and healing, she discovers that her art had been telling her story long before she was ready to tell it herself.Each body of work became another step toward understanding who she was, what she had carried, and who she was still becoming.The Woman I Kept Becoming is an intimate memoir about the unexpected connections between creativity and self-discovery, the lasting effects of trauma, and the possibility of finding our way toward wholeness. It is a testament to the quiet wisdom of intuition and the ways art can help us see what we have not yet found the words to express.Illustrated with more than 200 colour images of her artwork.