The reader will learn that through the arts and creativity one can come face to face to moments of clarity, joy and understanding as coping strategies. The chapters in the book lend themselves to the promises of the potential of comfort and new perceptions in maintaining a solid quality of life. Readers will identify with the author's issues that may involve trauma and unmet needs and receive new awarenesses to move forward in their journeys. Readers will feel the heartwarming and heartbreaking stories that will stir their own remembrances of human interactions, joys and sorrows and love and loss.