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Writing on the inner life.
Essays, memoir, and poetry on attention, grief, belonging, and what it means to live awake.

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Stuck in an Inhale
Of a Former Identity
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Shedding Skin
No need to to cut it,when it’s ready,it tears on its own.And it’s still nauseatingand disorienting every time,after so many before.
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The Role of a Mother
Staying with pain
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The Splinter
In my left foot
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Fragile Shoots
Don't stomp
alivenessidentityembodiment
Porous
And ever changing
embodimenttransformationattention
The Frozen Scream
Developmental Order - Part 2
traumafamilyembodiment
The 5 F's: Freeze, Fawn, Flee, Fight, Follow
Developmental Order - Part 3
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Poems
Chapter 1 - An Ocean of Pain
creativityembodimentfamily
Resurrecting the Lost Technology of Grief
Shaping Water (part 3)
griefembodimenttransformation
Unfurling
Shaping Water (part 1)
traumaembodimenttransformation
Taming the Dragon
Living with borderline personality disorder
traumafamilyembodiment
Eye of the Mountain