Shadow Confessions: Raw Version is the most raw and unfiltered poetry I've ever created, and I'm incredibly proud of how it turned out.

PMDD cycles can feel all-encompassing. Before I started going into remission (I'm still on this journey), my symptoms felt like living under a shadow—an impossibly dense cloud that refused to lift until my period finally saved me. Back then, I wasn't myself during PMDD. Not even a little bit. Every month, it felt like I was descending into the Underworld, an abyss I had to survive long enough to find my way back to reality. The only person who could rescue me was myself—a sub

For years, I thought I lacked discipline. Every time I started making progress with my writing, I'd eventually lose momentum, fall into motherhood chaos, let financial worries take over, criticize myself for falling behind, and convince myself I wasn't cut out to be a writer. What I didn't realize was that I wasn't failing—I was repeating the same toxic creative cycle as a mom writer over and over again. Breaking that cycle didn't happen overnight. It took self-awareness, hon