The Journey

Too many ideas are not always a good thing... Summer. I don't love the heat. I don't love the humidity. I hate the sun beating down on my pasty skin. I do, however, love the surge of motivation and ideas that comes with the season. The only problem is that I haven't been able to harness it in the past. Summer Brings Idea Overload When summer hits, it's like a collective floodgate opens. Too many ideas are soaring through the air, tapping into the minds of creatives who have b

For years, I thought I lacked discipline. Every time I started making progress with my writing, I'd eventually lose momentum, fall into motherhood chaos, let financial worries take over, criticize myself for falling behind, and convince myself I wasn't cut out to be a writer. What I didn't realize was that I wasn't failing—I was repeating the same toxic creative cycle as a mom writer over and over again. Breaking that cycle didn't happen overnight. It took self-awareness, hon

You don't always realize you're writing healing poetry while you're living through the pain. Some days, you write a single sentence and end with an unexpected epiphany. Other times, your poems feel like nothing more than scattered words on a page—until months or even years later, when you read them again and finally understand what your heart was trying to say. That's the beautiful thing about healing poetry: the goal isn't the finished poem or a book in hand. That's just a b

There's no sugarcoating this one. PMDD (pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder) is not an easy subject, and often, it's not one people like to hear about. It's dark and heavy and hard to process out loud, especially for people who have never experienced it. Luckily, this one is not for them. I’ve battled depression and anxiety on and off for most of my life. In hindsight, much of it was tied to PMDD and the emotional rollercoaster that comes with those darker cycles. Even among th

Shadow Confessions: Raw Version is the most raw and unfiltered poetry I've ever created, and I'm incredibly proud of how it turned out.

I am not a designer. It's not one of the titles I claim in my logo. I can sometimes be artistic and creative with images. I can take a dang good photo (though not a professional one), but I am NOT a designer. And yet, I decided to design my own poetry book cover for my debut collection, Shadow Confessions: Raw Version. Why? Because I have zero budget to have it professionally done right now. It's been… fun? Kind of. To be honest, it feels like a little too much pressure, but

A poet's voice is sacred. We take great pride in how we uniquely see the world and in how we choose to illustrate these views through patterns of words and verses. However, have you ever felt your voice sounded a little similar to another poet? So similar, in fact, that you start to question whether your work is unique at all. No worries. I know I have, and I think every poet has felt the same on their poet's journey–it's not a lost cause. In my debut poetry collection, Shado

I'm trying something new. So far, it's working, and working well. I've made the self-publishing process for my book far too comfortable. I poo-poo personal deadlines like they are nothing and replace them with other things for other people in an instant. If a client asks me to do something, I'm there. If I ask myself to do something, I ignore, push away, pretend I'm non-existent. Why do I do this? Well, to start, it's easier. It's easier not to do the hard thing. But also, t

Resting in the winter is foreign to me. Yet here I go, trying something new in 2025. So far, I love it.

Are you a mom who writes? Do you find it hard to do anything productive with your personal projects in the summer? Is it safe to say that...

Funny, I'm not an AI fan as a creative. I feel like it's popping up everywhere, and I can't do anything online without getting an AI suggestion. However, upon opening a new blog post and thinking about what to write, the Wix AI tool automatically suggested "self-care for poets." Funny enough, this is exactly what I've been focusing on lately. One of my biggest secrets to writing a poetry book, from a poet who just finished her debut collection, Shadow Confessions: Raw Version