The heaviness blanketing me feels like an institutionalised parolee, free yet still bound in the snuggery of their incarceration. I try and focus on the […]
Author: Jamie DeBruyne
September 22nd—I am the darkness in the light
The others who are here are more unsettled than the carriage; their monstrous faces, pointing at me from the blackened glass panes, beckon in me […]
September 12th: Approval for Creative Writing Degree
At the exact same moment, their heart stops dead and they sourly insufflate airborne dust. The computer screen hugs their eyeballs; it’s blindingly bright down […]
A Moment In An Empty Kitchen
If a way out exists I must be lostDoes the sun shine still into the shade?Its warmth a betrayal; my tearswho yearn for a silence […]
The Art Of Discernment—The Moment I Chose Peace Over Connection
While standing in my truest, heartfelt expression, I was forced to accept and honour my emotional limitations. What was once a connection that acted as […]
Reach Into The Dark
I am not ok.I am not ok.I have so much hurt; it’s overwhelming me.I make decisions as if they’ll lead me toward peace but all […]
The Healing Carousel: Are We Displacing Relational Dependency And Calling It Healing
The Healing Carousel: Are We Displacing Relational Dependency And Calling It Healing — Have we gotten so ‘broken’ because of society and all its expectations, oppression, greed, hatred, and judgements?
Integrated Attachment™: Beyond The Extended Shadow Of Interdependence
Integrated Attachment™: Beyond The Extended Shadow Of Interdependence—Modern secure attachment and the current definition of interdependence acknowledges that humans are hardwired for connection
I disconnect to reconnect—with myself!
I feel there is a fine, invisible line between avoidance and conscious disconnection; a line that can be easily misinterpreted, depending on where your perspective […]
When Connection Deceives: The Hidden Addiction of Need
When Connection Deceives: The Hidden Addiction of Need — That feeling in our heart, that high we get from feeling needed, or from needing others and having that met—a high that echos a childhood familiarity—that is what we mistake for connection,