Poetry To Inspire Reflection and Growth

This collection of poetry follows me through a period of growth and self revelation amplified during the global pandemic induced quarantine of 2020. It forced me to slow down, to trust the timing, and to pivot, lessons that apply to our daily lives.

It serves as a reminder that we will experience many blooms and many evolutions in our lifetimes and we must not stop looking inward. The key to living our dreams is in the lessons revealed to us through our journeys. It highlights how these journeys may surprise us, and how all that we dream of resides on the other side of fear and our comfort zones.

To become the butterfly, you must cocoon, and within that cocoon although isolated, you will find that you are never alone because your greatest companion, the love of your life, resides within.  

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"that thing you're going through
that feels like your downfall
that thing you're going through
that feels like the end
weather the storm
stay the course

it is priming you
for your awakening
preparing you
to shed skin
and to grow
do not be so afraid
of the shedding
you stay small
you stay stuck

keep going”

—In My Cocoon—