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Fear on a healing journey
A poem and piece (from 2017) with my reflection (with audio).
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Pain: Sitting with your own or another's pain.
Exploring one of the many drops in the puddles that form when navigating pain in relationship - with self and others.
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Behind the scenes: thirty-one - a poem (exploration)
Diving deeper into the words from my poem, 31 - the last of the poems where I played with the idea of 3 time points in my life where things changed.
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Behind the scenes: breaking open
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Quinoa & Buckwheat Sourdough Bread
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A wistful summer afternoon.
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Behind the scenes: eleven - a poem
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Pain: Sitting with your own or another's pain.
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Diving In
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Behind the scenes: thirty-one - a poem
The last of the three time-piece poems from my book.
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Behind the scenes: twenty-one - a poem (Part 2)
Exploring the lines of the poem, twenty-one, from my book breaking open - a healing journey back home.
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Behind the scenes: twenty-one (Appendix)
A piece written in 2018 on my memoir course, exploring the experience of receiving a diagnosis at twenty-one.
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Behind the scenes: twenty-one - a poem (Part 1)
Two pieces from my book, breaking open...ready for a behind the scenes share in the next Part...please let me know what this stirred in you, it means a…
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Quinoa & Buckwheat Sourdough Bread
Delicious gluten free sourdough that you don't need a starter for!
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A wistful summer afternoon.
Butterflies, dolphins and memories surfacing in my cells that seem to desire anonymity today. Sometimes a tired body craves a summer adventure.
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Pondering: on being wholly yourself.
How my noticing of nature is part of being wholly myself, and how when I'm in creative flow and not doing it for anyone else, I'm being wholly myself.
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Behind the scenes: eleven - a poem
An exploration into the poem, eleven, on page 24 of my book, breaking open.
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Behind the scenes: breaking open
Join me on an exploration into the inspiration and reflections of the pieces I've shared in my first book, breaking open.
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Over the Ocean
Over the Ocean
My ponderings on nature, my writing, wellness (I was given a Crohn's diagnosis when I was 21, which I chose to treat a little differently) and of course the ocean.
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