When you are challenged in your passion and you have people to support you through life, your writing will reflect that.

Yet, whether a negative word aims to serve us or cut us down, if it becomes a part of our identity, it is damaging.

Throughout high school, I filled up several journals, read poetry books and performed in Poetry Out Loud. Poetry was my life until it wasn’t

We embody our emotions, thoughts, and experiences through our physical self. I’ve always had trouble grasping this relationship between...