Purpose & Perspective

Not everyone can speak their pain out loud. And that’s okay. In my years of working in healthcare and in areas such as psychiatry, long-term care, acute care and hospice, I’ve learned that silence is not avoidance, rather silence is coping. Some people talk. Some write. Some go still. Some need time before the words arrive. And some heal by letting their thoughts spill quietly onto paper. Writing can hold what the voice cannot. It gives shape to emotions that don’t yet have

Not every emotion arrives loudly.Some feelings don’t crash into our lives, they drift in quietly, showing up as a sigh, a sudden pause, a restless night, or a thought that returns again and again, asking to be noticed. These are the whispers of the mind. The ones we often ignore because they feel too small to matter, or too vague to understand. The ones we push aside while telling ourselves, “It’s nothing… I’ll deal with it later.” But whispers have a way of growing heavier w

There are parts of our lives we speak openly about and then there are the parts we keep tucked quietly inside. The thoughts that feel too heavy, too complicated, or too vulnerable to share. Sometimes it isn’t that we don’t want to talk; it’s that we don’t know where to begin, or whether our words will be understood. Silence, in its own way, becomes a form of protection. A place where feelings sit, waiting for the right moment, or the right person, or the right language to rel

When a heavy thought finally finds a voice. Not in conversation, not in a room full of people, but in the quiet space where you allow yourself to write it down. Before that moment, the mind can feel crowded.Thoughts circle. Emotions stack. We replay situations, imagine outcomes, and carry questions we never ask. It feels like holding our breath without realizing it. And then we write. One sentence.One thought.One small truth. And something shifts. Writing doesn’t erase the