A Glove

“Think of a traumatic memory as something hot,” Capps says. “If you touch it, you get burned.”

When writing, art, dance or music is put “into the mix, it’s like putting a glove on,” he says. “We can pick up, hold, shape, manipulate the memory rather than having it control us. I got my stories out of my mind and onto the page as a way of gaining control of them. I do the work with the VWP as a way of giving those skills to others."

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