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poems for healing

Here, language meets sensation—a triad of poems to honor the journey of regulation, resilience, and becoming more whole.

angels of the get-through

"Here is the only place left on the map.
Here is where you learn laughter can go extinct—and come back.
God mason, heart heavier than all the bricks, say this is what
the pain made of you—
an open, open, open road.
An avalanche of feel it all.
Don’t ever let anyone tell you, you are too much or it has been too long.…
We say ‘Alone is the last place you will ever be.”

— Andrea Gibson

walk lightly

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.”

— Aldous Huxley

belonging

"May you give up your alliegiance to self-doubt, meekness, and hesitation. May you be willing to be unlikeable, and in the process be utterly loved. May you be impervious to the wrongful projections of others, and may you deliver your disagreements with precision and grace. May you see, with the consummate clarity of nature moving through you, that your voice is not only necessary, but desperately needed to sing us out of this muddle". 

— Toko-pa