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<h1>After Trauma: A Graphic Journey Through Wild Healing</h1>
 <p>When I first came upon Leela Corman&rsquo;s autobiographical watercolors, I was stunned by their beauty&mdash;and even more by their courage. As her graphic essay &ldquo;PTSD: The Wound That Never Heals&rdquo; revealed in vivid, vulnerable detail, Leela lost her then-only child, Rosalie Lightning, in 2011 to Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood, the pain of which ran rampant throughout her body, mind, and spirit for years.</p>  <p>Every part of her writhed in grief, but she gradually learned how to recover and heal. For our Winter 2016 issue, How to Create a Culture of Good Health, she illustrates what she has found on the other side of that trauma: absolute self-compassion and a total embrace of those wild, raw emotions that make us so human. &mdash;Erin Sagen, associate editor&nbsp;</p>  <p><figure><img src="/wp-content/uploads/imports/7074886534e64e26aa50e3983818f8cf.png"></figure></p>
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