Category: acceptance

• Look For The Glimmers

  

  In a world full of triggers, perhaps we need to look for the glimmers. “And what are glimmers” you ask? Read this 2 min thought-piece to find out!

  meowmeowproject

  May 8, 2023

  acceptance, art, being kind to yourself, communication, finding your own voice, Healing, life, Love, Meditation, mindfulness, neurodivergent, peace, Quiet, self-care, soul, vulnerable

  beauty, glimmers, hope, joy

• “Home” is when you stop lying to yourself

  I’m a singer-songwriter and the the official title of my debut album is “Home.” (See Footnote 1) It is titled “Home” because making music creates a space for me to feel completely at rest and at home. It’s a place I can escape to and use my imagination to recreate worlds and images and sounds…

  meowmeowproject

  March 1, 2023

  acceptance, anger, art, art therapy, being kind, being kind to yourself, emotional processing, finding your own voice, Grief, Healing, Imagination, inconvenient truths, Meditation, mindfulness, music, peace, positive self-talk, Psychology, Quiet, self-care, self-knowledge

• The Power of Solitude

  An article on finding your own voice through solitude and reflection

  meowmeowproject

  January 4, 2023

  abuse, acceptance, anger, Approval, childhood, Childhood trauma, christianity, communication, domestic violence, Family dynamics, Healing, inconvenient truths, mindfulness, Psychology, Quiet, Relationship, self-knowledge, soul

• Fall in Love

  

  A short introduction to my story and what I have decided to do with what I have been through

  meowmeowproject

  December 28, 2022

  acceptance, Healing, human, mindfulness, Quiet, self-knowledge

  Healing, life, Love, Relationship, trauma

• If

  If I could take away thoseTwo deep lines betweenYour brows I would You lie thereIn your pink uniformDreaming harried dreams Playing out all the dramaYou’ve lived on In vivid technicolor I sit hereUnwilling to wake youFrom your restful stupor How much rest have you reallyHad all these years? When will you sleepWithout those Creases betweenYour…

  meowmeowproject

  October 23, 2022

  acceptance, cancer, communication, dementia, Family dynamics, Gender roles, Grief, life, mother and child relationship, self-knowledge, Time

  Death, Grief, Letting go, suffering

• Are You Good Enough?

  Struggling with feelings of never being good enough? Read this article to heal yourself

  meowmeowproject

  June 27, 2022

  acceptance, Approval, childhood, Family dynamics, life, Love, Psychology, self-knowledge, speaking up

  abuse, authenticity, conformity, emotional abuse, Family of Origin, hope, identity, Love, perception, Psychology, Relationship, self-affirmation, traps, trauma

• Time Underwater

  I wish we had more time together Things would look so different underwaterWhen you consider all the waysThis tale could unfurl Can you imagine a different world? One structured byThe raw materialsOf hope, love and truthWhere people can see Beyond their fears Where things unsaid aren’tMade to degradeWhere words and their shadesDon’t obscure but create…

  meowmeowproject

  February 14, 2022

  acceptance, Gender roles, life, Love, Quiet, Relationship, self-knowledge, vulnerable

  allegory, identity, Intimacy, Love, perception, Psychology, Relationship

• Who Are You?

  This poem is about my father who passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2015. He died within 6 weeks of his diagnosis. After announcing his condition through email, he refused to see anyone for two whole weeks. He was a very independent and proud man who wanted to take care of business before letting people…

  meowmeowproject

  February 6, 2022

  abuse, acceptance, anger, Approval, childhood, Childhood trauma, communication, Family dynamics, Gender roles, Grief, Healing, inconvenient truths, Love, Marriage, memories, Morality, Relationship, self-knowledge, soul, speaking up, story-telling, Time, vulnerable

  Broken homes, covert abuse, deception, delusion, divorce, emotional abuse, Family, Family of Origin, gaslighting, Grief, identity, Intimacy, Introjection, lies, loneliness, memories, music, narcissism, perception, Psychology, Relationship, sadness, trauma, victim blaming

• Regret

  “Do you regret marrying Dad”I ventureWondering if she knowsWhy I ask “No, I don’t regret it” There is a pregnant pauseA naked silence “Why not?”I ask, undeterred “I don’t believe in the word regret” she offers Meanwhile,My brain is busy decodingwhat she’s saying “It doesn’t matter what you believe, but the wordexists mom”I mutter in…

  meowmeowproject

  January 14, 2022

  acceptance, communication, dementia, Family, Family dynamics, Grief, Healing, Home, Imagination, life, Love, Marriage, memories, mindfulness, mother and child relationship, self-knowledge

• Stories

  We live in storiesThe onesWe inhabitIn our heads The ones that weTell to eachOther To give understanding And hope To remind ourselvesThere’s somethingThat connectsUs all That binds usTo the fabric ofLife A purposeThat transcends Our smallHappiness And deep sadness We live in stories Because we can

  meowmeowproject

  January 2, 2022

  acceptance, christianity, communication, Family dynamics, Home, inconvenient truths, Love, memories, mindfulness, Psychology, Relationship, self-knowledge, speaking up, story-telling

• Mangoes

  Ripe with aMalfeasanceThat threatensTo engulf meWhole Round, fulland yellowWith that lingeringScentAn inviting sweetnessTo biteInto juicy flesh You’d buy them for meAnd I’d reject them Only to takethem homeReluctantly,If only to stopYou from eatingThemand hurtingYourself Your colonCan’t take itThe two operationsThe growing cancerpushing intoYour peritoneum When you eat mangoesyour intestines get blockedAnd your pain escalates The…

  meowmeowproject

  December 26, 2021

  acceptance, anger, cancer, communication, dementia, Family, Family dynamics, Healing, Home, life, memories, mindfulness, mother and child relationship, Psychology, Relationship, self-knowledge