All of these shards Haphazardly pieced back together She looks at her reflection And can see nothing but the cracks Can you see her beauty when she can't? Her hands clench Her fingers scratch and pick her flesh Thoughts on loop Sleep illudes even with exhaustion Can you hold her close…

I had sex with him so many times, consensually, sometimes out of feeling I should and a few times where I did not want to. I was in a relationship and the times I did not want to were mixed in with times of consent alongside an extremely high level…

This is a hard one for me to write, probably because it is where I was cut the deepest. This is the area of my life where deep trauma still resides and where I can feel anger and pain still bubbling in my depths. It is an area that my…

I spent a long time in my life not only being unhappy but being pretty much nothing at all. I was numb and shut down after more than a decade of increasing abuse and isolation. So numb that when my mother passed away I couldn’t even grieve her loss. So…

I remember the first time I lied as a child, it was an imaginative story made to make my five year old life sound more interesting than it was, but I was caught out as it happened and became fearful of lying ever since. Lying is apparently a necessary stage…

If today were the last day I got to wake up to your smile The last few moments I felt the tenderness of your touch I would want you to know How much you have changed my life Opening my heart To a love that I didn’t know was possible …

When I first left my last relationship I thought I would never date again let alone now be engaged to someone I can say without a single doubt in my mind is the love of my life. I was so scared to let my guards down, to open up my…

The journey to healing is one with no end. Every time you take a step forward through the pain, the overwhelm and the confusion, another moment is remembered, another part looking to be healed. Eventually you get to a point where you can look back and see how much you…

This has always been a problem for me in my life. When I feel, I feel big but there isn’t much of an in between for me. I go from feeling to shutting down really quickly. There were many years of my life where I hardly felt anything as I…