About Me
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I'm a former technology management consultant turned artist, activist, and homeschool teacher. I'm also a trauma survivor, autoimmune warrior, and certified yoga instructor.
Here, you'll fund a collection of poems and stories covering a variety of mental, physical, and spiritual topics, some of which may be triggering. Please go easy on yourself as you explore.
How do we overcome life's most painful traumas and obstacles to survive, nonetheless thrive?
We find the courage to safely share our stories, we find purpose in our collective pain, we give ourselves and others grace as often as we can, and we always exhibit grit.
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Exhibit: Manifest or deliberately display a quality or a type of behavior
Grit: Courage and resolve; strength of character; the ability to work hard and respond resiliently to failure and adversity; the inner quality that enables individuals to persevere
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By sharing our stories, we reclaim our power and give others permission to do the same. By centering the voices of survivors, we enable us all to navigate the complexities of our own pain, reassess any limiting beliefs, and reveal the potential in our collective purpose.
Thanks to the tireless generations who came before us, we have made great progress, but there is still much work to be done to achieve the true safety, healing, and equality that we all deserve.
To anyone currently sitting in pain or going through a storm, please know that you are not alone. You are seen, heard, and held. And you are enough - soon, they will see that too.
And always, always exhibit grit.
All my love & more,
JP
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