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  • Blue Irises: A Dark Allegory  on Childhood Trauma & Survival

    Blue Irises: A Dark Allegory on Childhood Trauma & Survival

    A dark, modern fairy tale exploring the heavy gravity of childhood trauma, dissociation, and the spaces we build in our minds to survive emotional abuse. Read more

  • The Math of Moving On

    Healing isn’t linear. Three years post-divorce, the waves of grief still hit. An honest look at depression, therapy, and why I’m done apologizing for the bad days.” Read more

  • A Speck of Sand

    A Speck of Sand by Elizabeth Ardelle – original country music style single cover featuring a woman standing on a dirt road next to a Redwood tree. Read more

  • Blue vs. Red Napkins

    Another portion from the project I’m working on. It feels a little close for comfort, which means my nervous system is doing it’s job: healing. Saturday morning was usually a quiet affair for Cheryl Miller. She would sip her coffee in the sun room with the paper and just lounge. It was her necessary decompression… Read more

  • A New Normal

    I had a whole plan of what I was going to say. But that has kinda just gone out the window. It seems as though my nervous system has decided to take my life hostage and is demanding the healing that it has desperately needed. For the next few months, I’ll likely be sharing random… Read more

  • 2026

    2026 has started off odd. It’s brought a lot of repressed feelings to the surface. My therapist loves it. I don’t. But here is a snippet of something I wrote recently. Not a poem. But part of a larger story. I just wanted to share it. Because poetry isn’t doing it for me right now.… Read more