Trying to find the words to describe what I had been through was like trying to grasp smoke. Narcissistic abuse relies heavily on distorting your reality. It was next to impossible for me to define, to express fully with words alone, so I turned to photography.

We often catch glimpses of celebrities on red carpets and in glossy magazines, immaculately styled from head to toe, leaving us to forget that they don't actually require makeup all the time.