Healing

Walk the Straight-N-Narrow:  A Poem about the Spiritual Abuse of Spiritual Authority Walk the straight-n-narrow, They said, And nothing will go awry. Walk the straight-n-narrow, and don’t ask the question why.…

A Love Poem (About Body Image/Self Image) We grew up together, You and I, Intricately connected Through a trillion cells Loved and lovely childhood Blooming together into Awkward ugly ducklinghood…

For this month, I have a podcast interview (linked below) with Alyssa Hogan–a professional therapist and someone I connected through over email a few months back. In this podcast: ~common…

The following post is part of the Year of Healing I’m doing on my blog, where I will explore monthly themes on different aspects of healing. February is the topic…

I interviewed a friend who went through an emotionally abusive marriage. It’s just a casual conversation that I hope you’ll enjoy. What I love about this friend named Andi (name…

For the past month, I’ve been rehearsing a performance piece of one of my most popular poems–“I Will Be Me”, a poem about self image. I’m very proud to release it live to you today.

For those of you who remember, I was asked to participate in a 48 Hours episode about my Kindred Spirit, Bethany. I’ve written a lot about her over the last…

Fight for Your Heart When the world crushes you with dream-killing deceit, ripping back the curtains of reality to show you the trickster lurking in shadows promising happiness and home…

It’s been a while since I’ve shared a poem on here. So here you go. Owning Our Scars we walk into the world unblemished, but we soon find that the…

Note: See an updated version of this poem, along with a video performance, here. Growing up, I used to have this image. An image society placed in my mind, which grew…