Control. Such a small word for such a vast, tender terrain. This poetic reflection invites you to explore the grip of fear and the soft release that follows.
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The Many Within: Becoming One – The Thread of All That I Am
She no longer chooses between her parts.
She gathers them — storm, rebellion, witness — and weaves a wholeness that lives and breathes.
This is the thread of all that she is.
The Many Within: The Rebel – A Soft Uprising
A quiet defiance. A soft uprising. The Rebel rises not in rage, but in remembrance—of boundaries, voice, truth. This is not rebellion against others, but a return to self. A reclaiming. A remembering. A revolt wrapped in softness. The rebel does not burn bridges—she builds new paths.
Soul-Bites Two – 5 Tiny Truths I Carried While Almost Believing Myself
A gentle round-up from the edge of becoming. This was the week I almost believed myself.A hush settled after the tremble.Doubt whispered.But I stayed.I gathered what I could — softly.Here are the truths that stayed with me: # 1. Doubt doesn’t mean I’m wrong — it means I’m close. It only shouts when I beginContinueContinue reading “Soul-Bites Two – 5 Tiny Truths I Carried While Almost Believing Myself”
Part Two: The Soft Gathering
A gentle return to self, after the stirrings of truth After the tremble.After the hush.After the voice that almost believed itself —there comes this:A soft gathering.Not a resolution.Not a triumph.But a laying down of all the truths we’ve carried this week.What a thing it is, to meet yourself after the echo.To say, quietly: I’m stillContinueContinue reading “Part Two: The Soft Gathering”
# Part 1.75 – The Moment I Almost Believed Myself
The Edge of the New Story Where Doubt Still Whispers There’s a moment in healing no one warns you about.It’s not the beginning — and it’s not quite the becoming.It’s the moment you almost believe yourself.And then the doubt arrives —dressed as protection.As overthinking.As sabotage.As silence. The Pause You’ve named your truth.You’ve spoken softness intoContinueContinue reading “# Part 1.75 – The Moment I Almost Believed Myself”
After The Hush: Echoes Of A Soft Rebellion
A Three-Part Poetic Essay From Being Human Healing rarely walks in straight lines.It loops. It echoes. It hushes, then howls.And sometimes, what feels like repetition is actually deepening —the soul returning to the same truth, but with new hands. ACT I — The Inner Tremor After the Hush First there’s a recognition – something isn’tContinueContinue reading “After The Hush: Echoes Of A Soft Rebellion”
Part 0.5 Before The Parts: The Unfolding
The Moment It Breaks “You don’t always see the break coming”Sometimes it’s loud.A scream. A slammed door. A “no” you never thought you’d say.Other times, it’s quiet.A tightening in the chest. A pause before replying.A moment where your own discomfort becomes louder than their approval.This is the moment it breaks. The Realisation “… your energy,ContinueContinue reading “Part 0.5 Before The Parts: The Unfolding”
Coming Out of My Own Silence
A reflection on visibility, vulnerability, and the sacred return of our voice There’s a silence we carry — not the peaceful kind, but the padded kind. The kind built of carefulness and concession. A hush stitched into us by years of trying not to be too much. Too loud. Too opinionated. Too wrong. And so, we shrinkContinueContinue reading “Coming Out of My Own Silence”
The Gentle Unfolding: Reclaiming Authenticity in a World That Demands Performance
“An “I, You, and We” Reflection” I: The Ache Beneath the Applause I know what it’s like to tick all the boxes – career milestones, achievements, accolades – only to be met with a strange emptiness I can’t explain. I’ve stood in the spotlight of accomplishment while privately navigating the shadows of burnout, shame, andContinueContinue reading “The Gentle Unfolding: Reclaiming Authenticity in a World That Demands Performance”