Back in Spoken Black Girl's personal blog days, founder and Editor-in-Chief, Rowana Abbensetts, held the first ever Journal to Healing Challenge. Now the challenge is back and we're digging even deeper into our minds and souls for honest answers about healing through the art of journaling.

Before my son was born, I valued freedom above anything else. The freedom to do what I wanted, when I wanted, where I wanted, and with whom I wanted. I loved freedom so much that by the age of nineteen I made the fool's choice to move out of my mother's house.