Writing
Since I was in fourth grade, I have diligently kept a journal. What began as my childhood attempt to understand the world became a lifelong practice of self-discovery.
Even survival.
These reflections explore mental health, recovery, relationships, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.
Featured Writing
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I Had Therapy Today
Published in Women Write
A compelling personal essay that explores the pivotal moment when denial shatters and the reality of sexual assault is finally realized. Through years of healing and self-discovery, this piece delves into the courageous journey of facing the truth and rebuilding a life with resilience and hope.
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Descent
Published in Thoughtfultini
A personal essay about what we know and what we allow ourselves to believe. Descent traces the slow unraveling of a story I carried for years and the difficult, transformative process of learning to see it clearly.
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Glass of Water
Published in The Gravity
A short reflection on self-neglect. It explores exhaustion, creative depletion, and the subtle violence of refusing self-care. The piece turns a glass of water just out of reach into a reflection on honesty. It asks where rebuilding begins when the self has been left in ruins.
Browse by Collection:
Daily Meditations
365 reflections and writing prompts exploring growth, awareness, resilience, and creativity.
Essays & Reflections
Personal essays, observations, memoir fragments, and long-form writing.
White Blank Page
Poetry, fragments, unfinished thoughts, and language that arrives before explanation.
The I AM Archive
An ongoing exploration of identity through journals, photographs, artwork, and memory.
My heart is dying, but not in the romantic way. Not in the way they write about in poems. It is shriveling, it is gasping, it is clenched so tight it cannot beat properly. They tell me the name for it—stress cardiomyopathy—so neat, so clinical. A heart giving up, not from clots or cholesterol, but from grief, from strain, from the sheer unbearable weight of being alive.