I don’t know if I’m realThough I think and I feelI touch and I seeI breathe and believeAnd engage and doThen a moment comesA pauseThat
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The grief of unhealed childhood wounds In my other post, Healing in Poetry, I write about unclaimed or rejected feelings states. In this one I
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The engagement of art in therapy is an established practice dating at least back to the 1940s [1]. While we might often think first of
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Leaving someone because they continue to live dysfunction and refuse to change isn’t abandonment. It’s self care. Lack of healthy boundaries and mutual enabling of
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I wouldn’t argue that these ‘madnesses’ manifest strictly along gendered lines, in fact I would argue they show in both, though maybe seen unequally. But
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I awoke one morning To a strangeness in my head Something that called clear to me As I lay upon my bed Words spoken soft
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The theme of feminine rising and patriarchy falling has long been circulating. It can sound like ‘men fall and women rise’ but it goes much
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Some days I awakenUnsettled and shakenAnd I know it is not a day like any otherBut a day for retreatA day on which I need
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Day 1: Acceptance Acceptance is a state of being where we acknowledge and make peace with what is. This can be with how we are
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