mental health awareness

  • Fawn | poem

    Fawn | poem

    This short poem explores the “fawn response,” a trauma instinct often rooted in childhood CPTSD. Told through the metaphor of a newborn fawn, it reflects the fear, abandonment, and survival coping patterns many people carry into adulthood without realizing it. This piece is for anyone who’s ever felt small, unsafe, or shaped by circumstances they…

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  • Tenderness as Rebellion | blog

    In a culture that glorifies toughness, empathy can feel like a flaw. Tenderness as Rebellion explores why sensitivity is actually an evolved strength — and how small acts of compassion challenge emotional numbness.

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  • Some people live in direct sunlight; others have deep ancestral roots in faraway lands where the sun was mostly shrouded by fog and misty sea spray. This is an essay about existing within a slower, deeper, more velvety frequency which shapes how I see and create. It’s for anyone who has ever felt “too contemplative”

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  • ⚖️ “The Emotional Weight of Being a Little Too Perceptive for This Planet.” (And why it’s not a flex — it’s a full-time job no one asked for.) There’s this thing I’ve carried my whole life that I used to think was “too much.” Too emotional. Too serious. Too deep. Too sarcastic. Too chatty. Too weird.

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  • Love in the Age of Isolation | blog

    In a world drowning in digital noise, loneliness, and performative connection, finding balance between light and dark has become a core human struggle.

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