Approximate reading time: 5 min Written 5th April 2023 I just finished a live lecture with Gabor It left so much emotion feelings so raw He was working with a woman who was struggling with her past She’d had a sexual encounter that had left a deep mark She said she was drunk but she …
Category: Dealing with Grief
My Tears
Approximate reading time: 2 min Written on the 28 th 2021 Memories this morning of being a little girl tears overflowed when I got overwhelmed Hating the anger Hearing those words shout “Keep it up and I’ll give you something to cry about!” As if my frustration and hurt simply weren’t enough I grew …
Childless by Chance
Written 17th March 2021 Grief like love takes on many forms, yet we live in a world that so often ignores… “Be positive Don’t look back always uplift. You, alone have the power to make the mind shift!” But so many griefs are engraved in our souls, A child losing a parent will always leave …
1%
Approximate reading time: 10 minutes I have writer’s block. I do. I hate it when this happens….I have been so excited to write the final attachment post. And yet It’s a dismal state of affairs. (Sometimes I feel like the only thing 100% consistent about me is my innate ability to be completely inconsistent!) Were …
Making Time
Written 4th February 2021 Gloom-filled dreams engulf me, I wake up with a heavy heart. Chaotic feelings of loss and guilt, flying off the chart The entire world is flooded, murky water everywhere. I’m completely overwhelmed, anxious, feeling scared. I take my little sister, out for a morning swim. Seriously, why did I even let …
Tiny Pieces
(Written 25 January 2021) How is it that after so many years, thoughts of you can still move me to tears? Ghosts from the past congeal in my mind, friendships lost through the ages of time. How is it that we play such a valuable role, caring and loving for each other’s souls… Then in …
O.r.d.i.n.a.r.y M.o.m.e.n.t.s
I lost my dad in 2010 and my mother in 2016. In 2016, 8 months before my mother past away we lost Anna. Anna started working for our family before I was born and in many ways, she was my second mother. I wrote about my grief in a post in 2018. Apparently, I wasnt …
Processing Grief: Clearing the space for Little Anjezë
(Reading time is approximately 25 min Hello all So I was searching through my 196 poems trying to figure out which one next? Neurotic Angel, of course, was demanding that I find a happy one. “Gees you need to lighten the mood a bit! If you are not careful you are going to lose half …
The Parts of Me
(Written 14th March 2021) I was lying in bed Struggling to get up This overwhelming feeling My heart is shut Anxiety has gripped me Badly this week Poetry has been hiding Refusing to speak Most days I struggle To even meditate I’ve cried so much It’s hard to regulate So, I crawl back into bed …
7minute Rant
I have diligently been “uhum…attempting” for the last few weeks to put together my dyslexia speech for toastmasters. I admit it hasn’t been going well….my biggest struggle is the 7 minute cut-off time that I have to make the speech in. (FYI that’s only about 2 pages of writing. TWO!😤 ). Needless to say, Gayle, Roxy …