Rewriting Your Story: Building Confidence Through Writing

The stories we tell ourselves shape our confidence and self-worth. Through writing, I learned to challenge self-doubt, and embrace my voice. Here’s how.

I smear the tears of my fears between the pages of you and walk away feeling free.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
-Salman Rushdie

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
-Soren Kierkegaard

The lies You Told – A Pantoum Poem

The Lies You Told explores the burden of lies, facing imperfections, and the resilience to rise and find personal truth amidst pain.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
-John Lennon

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. - David Carradine
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"Being a family" reflects the bittersweet irony that beneath the painted picture of unity, the truth of disconnection and struggle remains hidden.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. - Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the e experience behind them. -Charles Simic

Poetry is not only a dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundation for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. -Audre Lorde