From The Heartstrings of The Inner Children: Poems About the Effects of Complex PTSD

From the Heartstrings of the Inner Children is a collection of one hundred poems written between 1982 and 2025, tracing the author's decades-long journey of self-discovery and healing. Through poetry, she sought to understand who she was-and why she once believed something was inherently wrong with her.

The collection is divided into four sections: Karren's Poems, Addiction, Codependency, and Inner Children. The author's first therapist, Dr. Ed Dietker, who treated her for agoraphobia, encou...