Introducing Traveling Through Shadow, Coming into Light

Since I was 13, poems have been a way to make it through hard items, emotional pain, and confusion. Writing poetry has been so much part of my survival that it didn't occur to me that I could share my writing with others. Sharing my thoughts, feelings, and experiences felt frivolous and even dangerous.

I didn’t write poetry for a long time, but when things fell apart and my life felt like it didn’t fit the poems returned. Writing became medicine. It made my experience bearable—something I could look at on the page and make sense of, face, and begin to heal.

The poems in Traveling through Shadow, Coming into Light chronicle a liminal initiation—a time alone in a new place, facing myself, trying to stay sober, uncovering layer upon layer of trauma from childhood, tumultuous teen years, and deep loss. As I accepted the reality that the life I’d built wasn’t working and needed to be torn down and rebuilt, poetry reflected back to me that there was something inside worth reaching toward.

While I don’t always name it in the lines, these poems are about sobriety and being a sexual assault & interpersonal abuse survivor, healing immense greif and tending to mental health. They are about transformation, redemption, self discovery, self love, forgiveness, and resiliency—rising from ashes to begin anew, and returning to the wild landscape within. They are about dreams and dreamtime, the land, astrology, spirituality, creativity, and the human experience.And if you want them to be, they are as much yours as they are mine. 

Traveling Through Shadow, Coming into Light explores the transformation that is possible when we have the courage to travel through those shadowy places within. In these spaces, we find our unique gifts, and they give us the strength to love and accept ourselves and shine, lighting a path for other travelers on the journey back to self. ∞

Join me & let your light and shadows dance…🌵🌕

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