The Women Who Helped Raise Me
When people look at a woman like me…
The Journal
Notes from the Quiet Becoming
The journal of Scar Tissue & Stardust
Reflections on poetry, healing, faith, survival, creativity, and the sacred work of becoming.
The Women Who Helped Raise Me
When I think of my mother…
The Day I Forgave My Father
For a long time, I thought forgiveness meant forgetting.
The Names I've Been Called
I have been called many things in my life.
The Woman Behind the Words
People often know me through my poetry.
When Your Pain Becomes Someone Else's Safe Place
There came a point in my healing when I began to realize something I had never considered before:
Becoming the Woman I Once Needed
When I look back at the girl I used to be, I do not first see the trauma.
Learning to Trust Healthy Love
For a long time, I thought I had found love.
What Poetry Taught Me About Surviving Silence
Long before poetry became passion…
When Healing Doesn't Look Like Healing
One of the greatest misconceptions about healing is that it looks like progress.
The Story Behind Scar Tissue & Stardust
People often ask me where the title Scar Tissue & Stardust came from.
Why I Collect Forgotten Words
Long before I ever became the author of Scar Tissue & Stardust, before I understood trauma, healing, or what it meant to tell the truth on a page… there was a little girl in elementary school who fell in love with words.
