Tag: poetry for healing

The primary wall stood strong and tall, until she started to chisel her way through She had been told that she would never recover -- From...

I claw and climb into your head, Controlling your thoughts until I am fed. With a drink or a drug, I will be seized. With a drink...

Lively do the shadows play Within the darkened lonely way Few dare tread along the deep Where hatreds children play with sleep Rage and laughter fill the day As...

Dearest Doctor #2, don't dollop me in shame (or throw me a death sentence for that matter). Don't tell me I need to be happy...

It's hard, if not impossible, to impose on my son’s story any kind of literary “sense.” As a writer and a mother both, this has been my challenge. 

It takes a long time to recover from a psychotic episode, I understand now, and I wish someone had found a way, especially during those early years of her troubles, to give Rachel more space and time to find her own path to health.

The last four years I've been running Poetry for Personal Power, a stigma reduction campaign funded by SAMHSA. Poetry for Personal Power has been going to Missouri Universities and asking students what they do to get through hard times and we now have about 400 incredible videos on You-Tube, with youth wellness tools.