On Healing
"Healing is not becoming someone new. Healing is remembering who you were before the world taught you who to be."
— from The Pluto Complex
From the Pages
Writing
Excerpts from The Pluto Complex. A glimpse into the fire.
On Survival
"I was never broken. I was adapted. And I am still here."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Love
"Love that requires your diminishment is not love."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Seeing
"For the first time, I am not asking to be seen. I see myself. And that is where my life begins."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Being Too Much
"There is something holy about the moment you realize that the problem was never that you were too much. The problem was that the people around you were committed to being less."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Forgiveness
"Forgiveness, when demanded without change, is just another form of captivity."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Rising
"I am what rises when a life meant to destroy me becomes the one that sets me free."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Silence
"Silence does not protect. It erases."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Carrying
"I made myself small to protect those who never protected me. I carried what was never mine to carry."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Sacred Rage
"Sacred rage is the moment you stop gaslighting yourself, the moment you realize that what happened to you was not okay. That you were never the problem. That you were never unworthy."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Inheritance
"Some inherit heirlooms. I inherited fire. But fire is not only destruction. It is also transformation."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Remembering
"I wonder, sometimes, if love will always carry the scent of burning paper, if loss will always sound like a bag sinking beneath water. If, even now, I am still standing near those pumpkins, waiting for someone to cross the road and bring me home. But no one ever did. The only one who would ever save me was myself."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Awareness
"We read between words because we had to. We sense danger before it arrives. We track emotional undercurrents that others don't notice — or don't want to."
— from The Pluto Complex
On Reckoning
"Healing was not gentle for me. It was brutal. It was a reckoning. It meant giving myself permission to be angry, to grieve, to feel everything I had been told I was not allowed to feel."
— from The Pluto Complex
A Dedication
"For the ones who have endured the unimaginable. For the ones still fighting to reclaim themselves. For the ones who feel the fire of sacred rage but do not yet know where to put it — you are not broken. You are not beyond healing. And you are not alone."
— from The Pluto Complex
These are fragments. The full story lives in the book. When it arrives, you will know.