Category: Childhood trauma

• 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

• 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

• Grief

  They talk about griefIt comes in stages Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Acceptance But do they talk aboutThe stabbing painIn your heart? Do they mentionHow hard it is to trust again?How fearful you feelOf falling in love Giving your heart away again? Do they talk about the hollownessThat you feel in the depths of your soul? Do…

  meowmeowproject

  November 14, 2021

  abuse, anger, Childhood trauma, communication, domestic violence, Grief, Healing, life, Love, Quiet, self-knowledge, soul, Time

• Daenerys

  I know now whyshe burned cities downI feel the fireof her dragons breathing downon me The righteous angerthat was never seenheard or feltthat was dismissedby a thousandmenand the lies ofmyths and traditions She grazed it downto the groundand burned everythingsymbolizing thosechains Born in the fireCleansed by her angerShe finds new life in the ashes

  meowmeowproject

  November 13, 2021

  abuse, anger, Approval, Childhood trauma, Game of Thrones, Gender roles, Home, self-knowledge, soul, Time

• Drive My Car

  I went to The Projector on Tuesday this week for the 7:30pm screening of “Drive My Car” which won “Best Screenplay” in the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. It is a movie adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s short story of the same title. (SPOILER ALERT: important plot points will be revealed, so please do not continue reading…

  meowmeowproject

  September 24, 2021

  Childhood trauma, mindfulness, Psychology, Quiet, Relationship, self-knowledge, soul, Time

  Death, Drive my car, Grief, Haruki Murakami, hope, Love, suffering, surrealism, the projector movies, trauma

• Scorpio Revisits The Mirror

  Boxed in a living, brooding blackHot, crackling fury enraged in the vacuumI crave, I thirst,I am on my knees but Your words break melikeshattered glassand the screaming hammeragainst the door A child, blithelyBouncing, up and downUp and downon the mattress.Even as the worldCrumbles and implodes in the universe ofHer heart and The door is markedWith…

  meowmeowproject

  August 4, 2021

  abuse, Childhood trauma, domestic violence, Healing, Imagination, Morality, Psychology

  Childhood trauma