Tag: Family of Origin

• When She Goes

  When she goesIn her blue dressAnd pearls What will I do? When they send herInto the fireThe last I will see Of her How will I move? She’s all I can seeIn the ocean of my mindHer greyed hairHer drooping eyesHer tiredness Yet stronger stillIs her presence in meThe woman I knew30 years ago The…

  meowmeowproject

  March 20, 2023

  acceptance, Approval, art therapy, communication, crafts, emotional processing, Family, Family dynamics, finding your own voice, Grief, Healing, life, Love, Relationship, self-knowledge, vulnerable

  art therapy, authenticity, Death, emotional processing, Family of Origin, Letting go, loneliness, Love, Relationship, relationships, sadness, vulnerability

• 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

• 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

• Brother

  You wondered once ifA poem I wrote was aboutYou ‘Tofu’ it was delicately calledA nickname for someoneSpecial, who tickledMy senses Appalled when you askedMe that question. I said‘No, it’s not you’ Never suspecting youWould be hurt. How was I supposedTo know what that questionMeant? All of my life I didn’tKnow that wordsWere not enoughTo convey…

  meowmeowproject

  October 24, 2021

  Uncategorized

  Family of Origin, sibling rivalry

• The Beloved

  A long time ago, there lived a girl in a castle. It was an ivory tower, tall, pale and lonely. Encircling the castle was a huge and thick gray wall, dark and foreboding. It was made of heavy grey bricks so closely melded together it seemed to be one gigantic monolith. No matter how far…

  meowmeowproject

  September 14, 2021

  Uncategorized

  emotional abuse, Family of Origin, Jesus, Relationship