This research aimed to explore what a female adult survivor of child abuse and neglect experienced during art therapy and what that experience means. In the study, a narrative inquiry, a qualitative research method, was used to deliver a thorough understanding of child abuse and neglect. The participant was a female adult who participated in unstructured personal art therapy once a week for nearly 50 minutes, for a total of 30 times from April 2020 to February 2021. For this study, the participant’s written consent form was received before executing art therapy, and at each therapy session, a recording, observation log, art work, the journal between researcher and participant, and the interview log were collected. During the process, the participant created five experiential stories: “abandoned child,” “dumb child,” “reward for me,” “I would like to forgive”, and “new challenge.” The meanings behind these stories were as follows: “forgotten emotions are revived,” “filling up the empty space made by deficiency,” and “discovering myself within deficiency.” The implications of what was revealed through this inquiry can be expanded into “wounds from affection trauma,” “negligence is also severe abuse,” and “child abuse is a social issue.”