by admin | Aug 25, 2020 | Uncategorized
Imagine a monkey in a small cage. It’s been locked up for years. It’s been abused and experimented on. Isolated. Emotionally broken. It shakes the cage and frantically screams to get out. One day, the cage door opens. It’s free to roam. It’s...
by admin | Aug 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
I wrote this poem in May of 2010. I had been reflecting back when I turned 18 and how I hadn’t really focused on building a future for myself once I was old enough to move out of my parents house. I remember feeling surprised that I had made it to 18 and I...
by admin | Jun 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Everything inside me was screaming to turn around and run. My legs felt heavy and shaky. My gut instinct was screaming at me that I was about to walk into the lion’s den. I told her I was afraid. I told her that I didn’t want to go in there. She promised...
by admin | May 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
I wrote this poem several years ago. This is based on my own experience going to a domestic violence support group. The woman speaking in this poem is real and so are her words. It was a powerful moment for me that I felt compelled to write about. Words (By Zen Fu)...
by admin | May 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Being told we are “less than,” incompetent, ugly, not worthy, stupid, broken, incomplete, too this or too that… whatever it is that has echoed and haunted you for years and kept you small- those are all LIES. Lies designed to keep you in a cage of self doubt...
by admin | Apr 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
The years blur together. Time has no beginning or end. Half the time she doesn’t know what day of the week it is. She says this is retirement; getting lost in time. Our time spent together is precious because it never feels like enough. It feels good to see her...
by admin | Mar 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
She remembers a time that seems so long ago. A time of freedom, roaming in the world of endless possibilities. That would change with the promise of a new life, dreams coming true and happily ever after. It seemed so simple then. Life’s new chapter that seemed...
by admin | Mar 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
When a relationship is toxic, it is very common for the person on the receiving end of abuse to stop speaking up and using their voice. In order to stop “making waves” and an effort to not “set off” the abuser’s anger, we tend to say and do anything we can so...
by admin | Mar 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
What do you do when your identity is so closely tied to someone else and then you end up by yourself? Once you were a wife, husband, girlfriend or boyfriend…. Now you are solo and just… you. Who is that? Typically in unhealthy relationships the couple are...
by admin | Mar 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
“He (or she) doesn’t hit me.” Have you said this before? Or maybe you’ve heard this from someone else? Far too often, people say that they aren’t experiencing abuse because they haven’t been physically hit. Listen to this: “He/she just cusses...
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