Welcome to Mastering the Art of Being Broken, a sanctuary dedicated to the profound themes of grief, loss, personal growth and mastering brokenness.
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Mastering the Art of Being Broken was born from a simple, painful truth: we don’t talk enough about grief, trauma, or the quiet ways we survive. I’ve poured my heart into this space as a grief therapist, a writer, and someone who has walked this path myself.
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Recent Blog Posts...
Discover the latest blog posts by clicking the blog link in the. Here, you'll find a variety of content related to grief, including heartfelt poetry and narrative posts.
Additionally, you can explore chapters from my upcoming book, "Mastering the Art of Being Broken," as they become available. I hope that some of my writing resonates with you and feel free to share with others.
Monarchs
Monarchs revisits a childhood memory where fragile butterflies and family neglect intertwine, exposing how cruelty and silence fracture innocence. The poem will appear in the September 2025 issue of Beyond Words Magazine, an international arts and literature journal showcasing powerful voices and visual storytelling from around the world.
East
Grief has a way of fastening itself to the smallest, strangest details—the way a foot twists, the way clothing doesn’t quite fit, the silence around what cannot be seen. “East” traces how one such detail refused to let go, becoming both an emblem of anguish and a symbol of renewal. It’s a poem about bearing witness to what remains unturned, and how grief can both bloom and coil in the same breath.
Mastering the Art
of Being Broken
Mastering the Art of Being Broken is a collection born from the spaces we are taught to hide: grief no one knows how to name, family silence, inherited shame, survival masquerading as strength, and the quiet ways people learn to disappear in order to stay loved.
These poems and prose pieces trace a life shaped by loss — the death of a brother by suicide, the ache of growing up unseen, the loneliness of becoming oneself in places where authenticity came at a cost. Yet this is not simply a book about suffering. It is a book about endurance. About tenderness surviving where it should not have survived. About learning that brokenness is not failure, but evidence of having lived, loved, and remained open despite it all.
At its heart, this collection asks:
What if healing is not becoming unbroken?
What if healing is learning how to carry what shattered us without letting it erase who we are?
