What Art is Teaching Me
I have needed this year's NaPoWriMo like no other. Here's a poem I thought might resonate with you, or even help if you are a recovering perfectionist like me! Art…
Snowy Hope
What are you hoping for?
Recently, I came across a query in one of my groups. What had I done lately that I wanted to celebrate? Initially I thought, well, I haven’t really done anything.…
Complex ptsd – I wish you knew
This post is for people who don’t have complex PTSD. Something I hear, and also frequently say, ALL the time is how those of us with cptsd wish other people…
"Spring Scream" by Kelly Hanwright
Musings – Self Parenting, and sadness
My Self wants to write - to pour out what is inside her, but just for me. She doesn't feel like sharing. Yet here I am, posting what we wrote…
When someone you love has a mental illness and dies untreated
This post is for someone out there who is dealing with trauma grief, and for the one whose Google search "what it's like to find out your loved one had…
Truth as Bazinga (or, An Argument for Acceptance)
So in my favorite episode ofThe Big Bang Theory, Sheldon hasdisappeared in the middle of the night.Leonard leaves sleep to go get him from McDonalds. Upon arrival, he is pointed…
Reflected in the clouds
Future Memory and Using Poetry to Process Emotion
THE POEM Future Memoryby Kelly Hanwright Ive seen her again The ghost of a child running around this place in the yard An outcast with tangled hair and half a…
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in your Writing
A lot of people struggle with what's known as imposter syndrome. That's where despite your own knowledge and qualification, you still feel deficient in some way to be writing about…
Celebrating the Catalyst of my World
This coming Tuesday is the anniversary of the day my life changed forever when I married the man of my dreams and didn't even know it yet. When I came…