This collection represents a point in my life when my depression and despair began to lift when I finally began to forgive and accept myself

As an activist, I recognize that breaking the silence around mental health and addiction is a necessary part of creating change.

My poetry serves as both a mirror reflecting my personal experiences and truths and a window through which others can glimpse perspectives

High functioning is a label that fails to capture the immense stubbornness, effort, and exhaustion that lies behind my successes.

5 November 2022 Christmas has become 5 months of mourning Christmas-that-was followed by a 1 month Christmas in July resurrection that precedes 2 months of pinning for Christmas-to-Come which leads up to 3 months of Christmas advertising and an ever increasing amount of toxic Christmas "cheer". Playing Christmas music in public spaces is a nonconsensual and coercive act of forced participation in Christianity. The first Public Christmas song I encountered this year was the s

You all don't hear a lot about my Coffee Me personalities anymore. There's a reason for that. They were a fun and light-hearted way for me to deal with the mental health load I was struggling under; pandemic, toxic home environment, years of destructive political attacks, money worries, increasing anxiety over "everything", and just the general stress of working and owning a business. I was exhausted by the effort to navigate these and yet could not afford to slow down, take