A well-known fact about me is that I am an advocate that everyone should have access to safe food. A little-known fact about me is that I show my love for people by giving them delicious food. I think it started with my brother Eddy, his love of food was unmistakable. His eyes would get … Continue reading Tamales & Cookies
What does it mean to hold space for yourself or someone else? Holding space for myself means to allow myself to experience whatever it is I am feeling without resistance. To become water in the intense feelings that recovering from trauma can create. Holding space for others means to allow them to feel whatever they … Continue reading Holding Space for Trauma
You never bought me flowers, but there were those moments where you made me feel like you would give me the stars if you could. Gifts of the physical nature were never something that you really understood. Yet I am surrounded by all of the things that you gave me. The beautiful, the horrendous, all … Continue reading 13-1000-1
It is in the stillness that I hear your laughter Sensations of your body close to mine touch me Echoes of your voice like a whisper kiss my ear It is in these moments I feel the ache of your absence It is in my dreams that I feel the terror I endured The panic … Continue reading Time
Wait What are we to do with the silence that comes after a swift change? Do we meddle in the process trying to rewrite what has been written? Do we find a way to craft the change into something more palatable? Or do we wait for the lesson to emerge? You see, through the spurring … Continue reading Growing pains
Distant sounds of laughter echo down the hallway and fall like rain on the window of my darkened heart Fading memories of joyous moments once shared now become shadows that dance upon my skin I allow this shroud of sorrow to wash over me and encompass me tightly These moments of blackened existence … Continue reading Decay
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