While you forgot about me,

I saw your face everywhere I went.

Healing isn’t linear. This poem speaks for itself.

I wrote this poem while processing complex feelings and emotions about the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, and how with this trauma (as with most trauma) there is so much to process and such devastating impacts on our lives.

I wrote this poem while processing complex feelings and emotions about childhood sexual abuse.

I wrote this poem for the parts of me that are still finding their way home — especially those I repressed because of trauma.

This poem is a reflection on my own inner and silent struggles with societal expecations.

I wrote this poem when processing and feeling the feelings regarding being blamed for surviving the crime of sexual violence.

I wrote this poem on my healing journey healing from sexual trauma.

I wrote this poem about what it felt like to struggle with low self-worth.

Let’s stop victim blaming.

This is a poem I wrote when healing from negative self-talk and forgiving myself for being my own biggest critic.

This is a poem I wrote when processing anger about one of the guys who raped me.

This is a poem I shared in Reflections episode #4. It’s a story about overcoming fear after trauma.

I wrote these poems when processing and healing from dissociation. Throughout my healing journey I found it incredibly confusing and disorienting to process repressed memories.

I wrote this poem about what it feels like to be on the healing journey.

I wrote this poem when healing from the abuse of others and needed an outlet to process the difficult feelings that arise when learning to accept the unacceptable.