Category: Healing
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You Belong
Sometimes I feel invisible,like my edges blurand the world forgets the shape of me. Sometimes I watch the world in motion,voices weaving past me,laughter echoing without me. I wish for presence near me,a shoulder, a breatha weight that says you are not alone.Not talking just being. But then I take a quiet moment to notice,and…
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Anxiety – the buzzing bee
The buzzing bee is making its way towards me. It begins as a faint hum in the distance.I sense its approach even before it reaches me. It doesn’t care how unwanted it is here. It announces itself anyway. The presence is sharp and prickly. Immediately my body flinches. On high alert. Bracing. I sway from left to right to…
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Dear perfectionism,
Dear perfectionism, You can step back now. The comment, the reaction, the situation which summoned you to come to protect me is has now gone. The danger has subsided, and you can too. And if it ever comes back, I will meet it differently. I am learning how to hold myself. I know you came…
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Strangers or collectively vulnerable?
I work as a translator. A job which I took on to make ends meet and support my family financially. I thought I would get extra income from the side job, but it gave me back so much more – things I can never put a price on. In the last 7 years I have…
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Dear body,
I don’t even know where to start. For 30 years we have been together yet somehow we have been strangers. I’ve hated you, belittled you, compared you and wished you were different. All while you fought to keep me going. You allowed me to have moments of joy even when my heart was heavy with…
Soft Armour 