Poetry is as ancient as the stars in the sky.
When we read a poem, we rip open the sealed envelope of the human experience, and delight in what is written there, because it is a clear path into the colorful mosaic of our being. We feel less alone, and thus, have more acceptance and empathy for ourselves, understanding that our experience is deeply personal, and yet universal.
In a poem, one finds a sturdy boat that can be ridden across the stormy waters of life’s initiations. Fear, loss, love, any frontier that a human must traverse is found in a poem. Like a good friend, lover, or mentor, a poem can lure us into a deeper relationship to ourselves. Inspiring verses can chisel the inherited monolith of a life into a beautiful anomaly—dreams, relationships, and values shaped from one’s innermost feelings.
Reading and writing poetry is the art of fishing for your own eyes, “like smooth water-polished pebbles, set like jewels in a bracelet at the bottom of the river of the collective human soul.”
“I write only because there is a voice within me that will not be still.”
Sylvia Plath
Audre Lorde
“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”
Ocean Vuong
“To love a poem is to love a part of myself revealed to me by another person.”
Closer to the Core
When we can meet anxiety on its level, as a mistaken way of staying alive, we can accept it and give it some much needed love.
House of Mirrors
In trauma-informed IFS and somatic couples therapy, we will explore what parts of you are stuck in a dead way of seeing, and support them into a larger conversation of loving.