The Beautiful Darkness
March 19, 2021
One of the greatest impediments to personal growth is hiding from oneself. To truly understand yourself, you must go to those places less traveled within your psyche. … More The Beautiful Darkness
Tag: healing
Under Construction: The New Me
November 29, 2020
To recover from brokenness requires strength. It also requires you give yourself permission to have momentary weakness. … More Under Construction: The New Me
Mirrors (Self-Reflection)
November 22, 2020
I believe one of the bravest things we can do is to take an honest inventory of our own shortcomings and strengths and then hold oneself fully accountable. This is the path toward self-accountability. … More Mirrors (Self-Reflection)
Detoxified: The Epiphany
November 15, 2020
Part of healing from a toxic relationship is coming to terms with how your own choices contributed to that situation. In my experiences, my mind knew the person was no good for me, but I got ENTANGLED with them anyway. This poem is about choice. We are all guilty of making bad choices, but bad choices can teach you about life in the harshest of ways. If you can learn the lesson and then apply it to future choices, you achieve WISDOM. … More Detoxified: The Epiphany
Kintsukuroi
November 1, 2020
Kintsugi, also known as Kintsukuroi (“golden repair”), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum, a method similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise. (Wikipedia) … More Kintsukuroi
Goodbye Unicorn
September 30, 2020
This poem was about forgiveness and self-accountability. … More Goodbye Unicorn
This is Me, Healing
September 26, 2020
The editing process for this novel has required me to dig deep into my emotional well. I must admit that it has been very therapeutic. It has recently brought up something I was trying to hide from myself (as a protective mechanism): my broken heart. I always hope that by sharing the lessons I learn … More This is Me, Healing
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