A little off the hip tribute poem to my wild untamed Irish grandmother. Although we were vastly different in every singleway possible the uniting force was our deeply wild spiritual connection to nature, and that is lovely ❣️ I held my inhale for what felt like centuries in my bones. I could feel the claw of you reaching toward my tounge with memory trapped within the lungs of my breath. The world held their hands over the mouth of your spells and shamed you into confession at an alter that was not yours to stay. They called your magic 'sin' and made you kneel at a cross for your penance. But your land still hums with your rage, and that wild that you lost is my inheritance to dance along in the soil. She is my name, and the flames you tried to ignite her with have carried its ash onto me. 💚🤍🧡

@Kate Bullock thank you. I loved reading your poem as well. I've always had a tough time expressing my emotions, but somehow I can do it with poetry. 😊

@Kate Bullock when I first began my understanding of generational trauma I really started honing in people watching. I grew up extremely poor, we had no car and because of that my world consisted of only a few mile radius. All I saw was poverty, crime, addiction, and chaos. So observation was very (and still is) very important to how I process what 'normal' is. I remember the first time I went to someone's home that had a two story house, the heat on, food stocked in the cabinets, and their home felt very calm and loving. My eyes almost popped out of my head! I was in grade 11, and was clueless that people lived this way. I'm like so you don't go stand outside in the rain for free government food to eat? Wait what? Shock! I often think I could be here angry I had to grow up the way I did. I have an open excuse card to play. However, I'm very thankful for it. Due to trauma I learned to read people, energy, and rooms. It's no longer based in fear, it serves my energy and helps me connect better with people I choose to have in my life. It has taught me resilience and how to dream inside a nightmare, and my third eye is so connected spiritually. There is so much beauty in just that alone. 😉💚 So people watching for me plays into this very big expansive growth part of me that is ever evolving, its lovely. And curious to know how this plays into your creativity😊

@Kate Bullock I was talking to a friend recently who was very sensitive as a child (still is) and that's the biggest part of what makes him such a beautiful human. His sensitivity isn't something to 'fix' or should ever be seen so from the worlds stand point but often is. I absolutely love his squishy heart and believe the world would be so much more compassionate if we had hearts like he had. But his mom would often try physical harm in an attempt to 'toughen him up to be a man' when he was just a boy. She was punishing him out of her own insecurities- much like it sounds like you experienced with writing. These patterns live in families for generations until someone like yourself rises and observes them to call it as the dysfunction it is. This is why your art and your writing is so important. Its not just beautiful expression, it literally pours healing over the wounds and shifts pattern recognition for the next generation in your family line. Because what you are processing out of you they see as lovely. They don't see the little girl being punished for having dyslexia. They just read your writing and smile, or see your art and it lights up a room. They might not be aware of it, but those are major shifts in healing generational trauma. You should have never had to have carried all of the things you went through as a child, but I'm so thankful you are here now and free to express with no limitations. Hope your day is filled with the presence of ease and love

@Ada Draedan yes! A return to curiosity and magic💚

So beautiful Kate. 💚 You somehow created a way for the silent to become visible in these sketches. Thank you gor sharing your gift with the world 🙏

So beautiful Kate. Thank you for taking the pause to share that and see the beauty in the world ❣️