Feeling Safe To Feel the Pain
While waiting for the safety necessary for my brain to be ready to process them, my body has held these secrets, memories, and pain.
Topic: abuse
Torching the Gaslight
My fight or flight response has been active for so long that stillness often feels agonizing.
Can You Be Both?
I’ve never liked the word “victim.” I’ve also never liked the word “survivor” for that matter. But I’m both.
Your Family Does Not Define You
I refuse to allow the same toxic cycle of verbal and emotional abuse to continue with the potential to last for generations.
Seeking Closure After Abuse
It’s discouraging, being almost better but not quite there.
Exposing the Lies
I’m trying to create a new reality—one where happiness exists, one where I can erase the false narratives and write stories that are true.
Choosing Courage
You don’t have to survive and endure pain to be strong. Sometimes being strong means freeing yourself of it.
NFL Player R.K. Russell Tackles Mental Health Through Poetry
The NFL was knocking on the door, and I was becoming the patriarch of my family. I didn’t have time to deal with all the baggage I was carrying on my shoulders. Instead, I shoved my emotions down and repressed how I was feeling because that’s what men did, right?
We’ll Always Be Us
I never felt anger over her decision. From my own diagnosis of PTSD, I knew that much of what she did wasn’t her fault or entirely in her control.
Keep Going
Tomorrow you will do it all again. I know that’s scary to hear, especially since today you contemplated handing it in, crashing the car, putting a stop to it all. But keep going.
Working It: How Amanda Lovelace Uses Poetry for Healing and Progress
Lions and Sunflowers
I was emotionally and verbally abused for the first 16 years of my life or so by my father. That’s a hard thing for me to type. It’s an even harder thing for me to say out loud. My instinct is to clarify that I still had a good childhood by most accounts.
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