HeyJaredWords of Wellness
Biblio | Poetry Therapist & Author of ‘Bibliotherapy in The Bronx’ (April 29 2025)
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Reading Is Only the Beginning (opens the original)
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What Happens After You Underline It? (opens the original)
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I underline a lot when I read.Sometimes it’s because a sentence is beautifully written. Sometimes I want to remember an idea. But the passages I’m most interested in are the ones that make me feel something before I completely understand why.The sentence that makes me put the book down for a minute.The character who irritates me more than they probably should.The relationship that feels a little too familiar.The passage I photograph because I need to send it to somebody immediately.The words tha
Some Stories Name What We’ve Never Had Words For (opens the original)
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Kennedy Ryan gives us a mirror in SCORE to help us reflect on how our early experiences shape our expectations for romantic love. SCORE is a powerful bibliotherapeutic read to explore attachment, relationships and what we learn to hide in the hopes we will find true love. But the real is this: we shouldn’t have to hide our struggles to be loved. We need to allow our full self to be seen in order to attract an aligned path and partner to love. “He was never diagnosed. Never took meds. Never spoke
The Closest Brother to my Mother (opens the original)
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I really thought you would never die.Not because you were perfect.Because you were a warrior.A celebrator of life.You survived so much of what life threw at you that somewhere along the way I started believing you were untouchable.A young Puerto Rican man.The only brother in a gang of daughters.The closest brother to my mother.Latin King.Imperfect.Gangster.Lover of women.Lover of life.You contained all of those contradictions, and somehow they all belonged to the same man.You taught me how to sw
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