Expressions

Category: Expressive & Trauma Writings

  • This is Me..!!

    I have changed, I have evolved. From a place where it felt like standing in midst of a muddy pool, looking around I saw dirt on myself and on everything around me, it felt this was the only place I knew. I had no idea on what resources I could use to get out of […]

  • “THE BROKEN PIECES”

    I encountered several people in my life asking these questions to self and others in several contexts..! What to do when people around us are manipulative? What to do when people around are enablers of manipulators? What to do when people don’t want to see the truth in any situation.? What to do when people […]

  • Sometimes Abuse Can Look Like Red Roses and Pretty Smiles.

    I don’t know where to begin As my mind has been going in circles What came first? The chicken or the egg?  A circle has no end or beggining  One is connected to the other Never a period of pause. Never a moment of respite.  There are stories that people write. About broken jaws and […]

  • Some Sublimation Art

  • Some art while recovering from Narcissistic Abuse

  • When I lost my functionality, I felt like I lost everything. 

    I am that good girl your mother talks about. The one who wipes the house shiny, pays her bills on time, and grows tiny house plants. I am that good girl who people accommodate. The one who takes no space, says sorry a hundred times, and keeps her mouth shut. I am that good girl […]

  • An angry letter against Post-Traumatic Growth

    There is so much toxic positivity going around, everywhere I see.  “Make mistakes and learn from it.”  “Face a failure and grow from it.”  Why should an unfavorable incident be a source of self improvement? Also, what is this obsession with growth! What if mistakes happen, failures happen, and nothing good ever comes out of […]

  • Affirmations

    Affirmations I have trouble expressing my rights, worth, or love for myself. It feels like I am lying to the world. I am pulled into a whirlwind of shame. “You are fooling everyone. Of course you are not human. You deserve nothing. It’s only a matter of time before everybody find out.” Sounds so alien […]

  • Realisation of Relations

    In a recent therapy session, my therapist asked me to differentiate between the people I allow into my home and the people I allow into my heart. This question baffled me. How can one differentiate the two! How can I let someone into my home who is not already in my heart? After hours of […]

  • When the stigma is from within: A story of my feminist values and a narcissistic mother

    I’ve seen my mother face domestic violence since I was a child. Growing up in an environment where individual liberty and self expression had no space for existence, I soon learnt to survive by making myself invisible. But in my most private thoughts, I always felt the need to fight for women’s rights. Maybe it […]