Art as a Safe Space
I did not turn to art only in search of beauty, but because I was searching for a space. A space where no explanations are required, where exhaustion is not questioned, and pain is not measured by how reasonable it sounds. Art was never something I did in my free time, nor a skill I […]
How I Live Without Being Fully Healed
There is a quiet idea we grow up believing without noticing: that life only begins after healing. That joy is postponed. Work is postponed. Love is postponed… until we “get better.” But what if that never fully happens? What if I never become that imagined version of myself— completely calm, completely at peace, untouched by […]
When Words Fail to Save Me, Art Does
There are many moments when words don’t fail me because there are too few of them, but because there are too many—more than I can carry. They crowd inside me, intertwine, grow heavy, then fall one by one before reaching my mouth. In those moments, I realize that language, for all its vastness, is still […]
What I Learned from Fire and Glass
I didn’t learn from fire because it is gentle, nor from glass because it is fragile… but because both are honest. Fire does not flatter. You either step into it, or you remain as you are. And glass? It only transforms if it accepts to pass through. At first, I thought fire was an enemy— […]
Things No One Told You About Healing
Healing is not a moment of sudden clarity, nor a brave decision made once and forever. It is a long sequence of ordinary days— days where nothing obvious happens, yet you are quietly trying not to fall back again. No one told you that healing might begin with numbness, not relief. That you might stop […]