A poem about healing, forgiveness, and letting go of the walls I’ve built. I fell a thousand feet,truth revealed,my eyes open,wide and haunted. Everything crumpled,your image destroyed,my heart split. Too many wounds,left weeping. There’s too much to heal. So I built it,brick by brick,strong and steady. I tended to me,you were left pleading,I looked the…
We took a woodland walk in the Peak District, and for the first time that week, the noise in my brain slowed. It made me stop and listen to the rustle of dried leaves. The gushing of water as it glides between the rock formations. The gentle hum of morning song echoed between the tall,…
It’s not then. It’s now. Walls closing.Heart pounding.Throat dry. The world feels small.Me — bigger. I choke.Desperate. Scared.In. Out. In. Out.I rub my hands together. Questions.Confusion.Am I safe? My body doesn’t understand.My brain remembers. I gasp — desperate for breath.Old wounds open.A prisoner in my subconscious. In. Out. In. Out.I breathe some more. What’s happening?…
When my world feels too big to process, I remember Sonder. I sit at my desk looking out the window, and one person after another walks by. A grey-haired woman has deep lines etched into her face, her eyes drooping as they glisten. Her shoulders slump, her movements slow as she struggles to carry her…
I’ve been a silent hoverer on Substack for ages. Always umming and ahhing. Watching YouTube tutorials, scrolling ‘how to’ TikToks – anything to put off actually doing it. And then I finally did. Plucked up the courage. It makes sense why I wrote about being scared to be seen as my first post, as honestly,…
Sometimes I feel like I’m just not good enough. It’s that awful feeling that creeps in when you try something outside of your comfort zone, and your mind suddenly fills with doubt. It’s horrible. And the funny thing is, on the outside, I’m seen as an overachiever, sometimes even confident. But inside, I’m silently battling…
Have you ever had days, weeks, or even months where life feels like it’s weighing you down? It’s just one thing after another and you’re trying your hardest to keep your head above water – yeah, me too. The past eight months have been some of the hardest of my life. I’ve faced addiction within…
Have you ever caught yourself doing something you know isn’t helpful and yet you keep doing it anyway? Maybe you beat yourself up afterwards, wondering, “Why am I like this?” You’re not alone. We all have patterns of behaviours and habits that seem to run on autopilot. Some of them protect us. Others hold us…
Do you ever get to the end of the day and feel completely drained? Or you’re having one of those mornings where you wake up and you’re already exhausted? It’s all about energy. Discovering the Spoon Theory helped me understand why some days I am on top of the world. Whereas other days, life seems…
Lately, I’ve been getting quiet nudges — reminders to slow down, to listen in, to trust my intuition. Intuition is something I’ve always known I had. But honestly? I haven’t always trusted it. There have been so many moments when I wished I had, moments where I knew deep down what the right thing was,…
