About Monika's Poetry.
During ninth grade, Monika, an alter within my (Kristin's) dissociative identity was the host of the dissociative identity, meaning that she was the one "fronting," the part of consciousness present in the body both experiencing & responding to external life/reality.
Her primary methods of coping are still effective today, the second of the two primary methods being poetry & writing out her feelings & describing her emotional experiences in either an abstract manner or in a storyline others could relate to somehow.
During high school, Monika wrote hundreds if not thousands of poems, which I (Kristin) find truly incredible. She was completely dedicated to expressing her emotions without upsetting life in any capacity, which meant keeping her pain to herself while still finding a silent way to express it. During class in school & at our desk at home, she scribbled away in notebooks, on loose-leaf binder paper, on random scratch paper, & even on pairs of jeans & all over her body repeatedly.
