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Writer and trauma-informed coach with training in somatic therapy, sharing personal essays, poems, and gentle tools focused on childhood trauma, nervous system regulation, and embodied healing.
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I Wish Chronic Illness Were a Trend (opens the original)
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Apparently having a chronic illness is cool.At least, that is what the headline in The Telegraph seemed to suggest: How having a disability became cool.I read it twice and I think part of me hoped I had misunderstood it.The article called chronically ill women “sickfluencers” and suggested that illness had become a lifestyle trend.I wish chronic illness were a trend.Because trends end.People lose interest in them. They move
Eight Years Without My Dad (opens the original)
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Eight years today since my dad died.There are things about grief I understand better now than I did back then, but today I don’t really want to write about what grief has taught me.I just miss my dad.I miss being able to call him.At the end of our phone calls, he would always say the same thing.Love you, my dear.I can still hear exactly how he said it.It’s strange, the things that stay.I can still hear his big belly laugh too. I could usually get it out of him when I made a joke, and once he sta
The Slow Pour Lesson 2 - Writing Through Brain Fog (opens the original)
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Hi everyone,Welcome to Lesson Two.There have been so many days lately where I sit down with my notebook, but my brain is so exhausted that even thinking of a starting line feels like too much work.I want to write. I can feel that I need it. But my brain fog is so bad that finding the first sentence feels like more than I have in me.And I’ve learned that forcing the words usually doesn’t help. I end up getting frustrated with myself, which is the exact opposite of what I came to my notebook for i
The Slow Pour - Lesson 1 (opens the original)
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Welcome to the first lesson of our September series, The Slow Pour.A few months ago, I was sitting at my desk, completely exhausted and in the middle of a Lupus flare up. I wanted to write, but every time I reached for my notebook, I stopped. I just didn’t have it in me to untangle my thoughts or fill a page.So I tried something simple. I set a two-minute timer on my phone, opened the notebook, and promised myself I’d stop the second the alarm went off.What I noticed after was how much lighter i
I’m Bringing Life Interrupted Back (opens the original)
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Content note: This post mentions depression and suicidal thoughts.I think I’m finally ready to talk about this…Five years ago, I published a poetry collection called Life Interrupted under my pen name, D.L. Heather.At the time, writing under a pen name felt necessary.Life Interrupted was never only a book about being diagnosed with endometriosis. It was about being a woman in pain and discovering how easily that pain could be dismissed.It was about the shame and stigma surrounding periods and wo
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