It has been the kind of week that I didn’t think I would make it through without destroying my life. I often forget that there’s a power in pausing and allowing before reacting out of fear, based off of emotion. One of the hardest things about healing, for me, is learning when to trust thatContinue reading “Poetry Series – Waves”
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Poetry Series – Laughter
I long thought I needed someone to help calm, help balance, the wildness raging inside of me. If only I could find someone stable enough to tone me down to a reasonable volume, yet I’d scream the moment they tried to mute me. It turns out all of this time, the only thing I reallyContinue reading “Poetry Series – Laughter”
Poetry Series – Love Language
At 28, I already feel like I’ve done a lifetime’s worth of explaining myself. Sometimes it was an attempt to clear up a misunderstanding and other’s a frivolous effort to finally be understood. It’s not always easy to accept that if you have to try that hard to be understood, you won’t be. If youContinue reading “Poetry Series – Love Language”
Poetry Series – Attack
There are times where thoughts are far more feeling than they could possibly be words. Waves of emotion so intense that they can’t possibly adhere to typical structures of sentences and paragraphs but they still need to be said rather than shown. Poetry shows us that we don’t always have to play by the rules,Continue reading “Poetry Series – Attack”
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