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Balance-my favorite word. A wish I hear others echo, a desire we can realize. Come look and step outside the box with me. I’ve seen its success, over and over again. #balance Finding [...]

Women who have had some serious trauma in their past come to me tired of feeling like the victim.  They don’t know whether to forgive, how to move forward, which way to begin again. Below [...]

I. Neon signs pass as moonlight here, a promise: the world is still beautiful. II. I remember the night I tried to replace my ribcage with yours, trying to find beautiful in my time- bomb body. [...]

Identities take up space: headspace, emotional space, social space, and even physical space. Assigned female at birth, I quickly realized that I was “supposed to” take up less space than my [...]

I want to write love poems to my own body. So I’ve started taking the ones I wrote for you and replacing every “you” with “I.” Now I know I too love the taste of the ocean and I will grow like [...]

I am the type of person that reads landscapes like they are love poems and criticizes them for not being beautiful enough. I grew up in a city surrounded by trees, had to find beautiful behind [...]

As the New Year roles around all of us face the inevitable task of looking back at everything that has happened in the past year. We find ourselves desperately cataloging everything good that has [...]

I am one of those individuals that likes to write out “to do” lists for myself to keep organized, prioritized, and accountable. Many psychologists strongly believe that people are more likely to [...]

The world will bloody your knuckles without even trying. If you cry in front of the women you love, they will still love you. Strong does not mean: tall loud angry. Strong means swallowing the [...]

I am made of ancient oak trees of lions and tigers and spare tires old rubber gathering older dust that has spent its whole life floating through fingertips and vacuums I am made of spiderwebs, [...]